Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

This course is organised on different levels. The basic level will focus on the following topics: the Economic Miracle and the “Great Transformation” (with changes in society and mores) and the long-standing roots of anti-politics and populism, from the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) up to the recent ascent of populist movements like the League and the Five Star Movement.

This part of the course lays the foundation for both Module 1 and 2. Each module will then provide a more in-depth look at some topics.

In Module I, the following topics will be analysed: The Republic, the “Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque” (The Common Man’s Movement), The mass-parties, the large-scale transformations during the sixties and the change in mores, the important changes in women’s conditions, the 1968 protest, the hot autumn of 1969, civil rights movements, the Piazza Fontana bombing and the “Strategy of Tension”, the political-economic crisis, armed struggle and political violence, the Movement of 1977, the “Historic Compromise”, the Case of Aldo Moro, changes in collective ethos, the advent of commercial TV, the emergence of the politics of spectacle, the foundations and development of the eighties. T34he crisis of the so-called “First Republic”, the collapse of the party system with “Tangentopoli”, Berlusconi’s rise to power and “Berlusconism”, the choice to become part of the Eurozone, the reasons why “Berlusconism” was successful and then why it began to decline between Liberalism and Populism, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the emergence of the Five Star Movement and the League.


Within this framework, students may choose to more closely examine one of the following topics: changes in the condition of women and the feminist movement, the strategy of tension and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary right, the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

Module 2 furthers the reflections already developed in Module 1 by picking up where they left off and expanding on them, placing them within the broader context of the events of recent years. Therefore, we will look more closely at the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) and “Berlusconismo”.


BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

The first part of the course is devoted to the changes taking place within the public and political scene and the most important theoretical contributions. In the second part will be considered the main areas of transformation of political communication in relation to the recent history of Italy. In the third part will analyze the role played by television and social media in the popularization of politics. The recent election campaign of the US Presidential Elections will be analyzed and studied.
The course includes the viewing and analysis of audiovisual materials propaganda such as television programs, documentaries, commercials, posters. A good knowledge of the Italian contemporary history is preparatory to the course content.

Course program
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
A text of your choice between
- Paolo Gribaudo, I partiti digitali, Il Mulino 2020
- Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Roberta Bracciale, La politica pop online, Il Mulino 2019

For students of the Master's Degree in International Relations of Political Science, for which the examination is worth eight credits, the program also includes one of the following texts:
- Paolo Mancini, Il PostPartito, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
- Ilvo Diamanti, Marc Lazar, Popolocrazia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, solo parte seconda pag. 115-285.

The following audiovisual materials supplement the course and their vision is suggested to the students.
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: http://www.lagrandestoria.rai.it/dl/portali/site/puntata/ContentItem-39b8c91a-4ca4-4ad1-8429-00e11b21b042.html
– “I politici e la tv”, Correva l’anno, Rai Tre, http://www.raiplay.it/video/2016/09/Correva-lanno—I-politici-e-la-tv-del-19092016-bae0add3-4fb2-4730-ad11-fffea112e7de.html
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 1 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYA6nWs594
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 2 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__F8kF9ObFA

Christianity and secularization
Starting from the political and social transformations introduced by the French Revolution, the course intends to analyze the evolution of doctrinal debates and State legislation which during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries profoundly modified the relationship between society and Christian religion, and aims to verify the repercussions that the impact with the modernity and the secularization have had on the internal life of the Christian communities, in their various components.
The analysis will be conducted by reading the sources and comparing different historiographic interpretations of the topics covered.

1) Source dossier provided by the teacher through Moodle.
2) René RÉMOND, La secolarizzazione. Religione e società nell’Europa contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999
3) One book chosen from the following:
- Daniele MENOZZI, La Chiesa cattolica e la secolarizzazione, Torino, Einaudi, 1993
- Giovanni MICCOLI, Il mito della cristianità, a cura di Daniele Menozzi, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2017.

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

The first part of he course focuses on the historical question of African history and the history sources for this continent. Particular reference is made to oral sources and methodology. The course will then move on to the fundamental aspects.
The course aims to provide basic background knowledge of the history of the continent and its modern day problems, this in the light of a historical understanding of different cultures.
Subjects covered:
Aspects of African culture (Clans and ancestry, totemism, theism, social structures)
The impact of colonialism
The Africanisation of the colonialistic western culture

- Bernardo Bernardi, Africa. Tradizione e Modernità, Carocci, 2001
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo, A quando l'Africa? Conversazioni con René Holenstein. EMI, 2005 (French original edition)
- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

This course reviews the general history of the United States and Canada from the Colonization to the present and allows students to reach a basic
understanding of cultural, political, social, and geographical factors that influenced their historical development.

Goals:
As a Specialistic course, it provides a more detailed investigation of the subjects, continuing to build on methodologies, debates, interpretations, interdisciplinary approaches, and historical skills learned in other history courses. Students will further develop their attitude in historical research, analysis, interpretation, and problem solving, working with both primary and secondary sources, and critically evaluating the ideas and arguments of others thinkers in the field.

Readings assigned for lectures and seminars are provided at the beginning of each Unit. Some of them are ebooks or journal articles
available electronically on the Ateneo Library system and accessible online. The required readings are posted by email. All videos or audio
screened are available on-line.

Codicology
The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of manuscripts, Latin and Greek, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, the external characteristics of the manuscript will be examined (material techniques for preparing the book as a physical object, ways and means of production, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), as well as the cultural landscape of the times and places of origin of the manuscript books. An in-depth study will be devoted to the methods and problems of description of the late medieval codices. This course will include both the examination of reproductions of manuscripts, in paper and electronic format, and the direct examination of manuscripts and writing materials, through visits to archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The public has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on the screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.

On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.

The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.
To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.
The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• Z. Snyder, 300 (2007)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• Kenneth Branagh, Henry V (1989)
• Justin Kurzel, Macbeth (2015)


Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.


Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

The course aims to propose an artistic path in French cinema of the 30s: tendencies, authors, and the most significant films. Between avant-garde and realism: the experience of Jean Vigo. Literature, cinema, society in Front Populaire's France. The label of "poetic realism". The major films by Clair, Renoir, Carné, Duvivier, Grémillon.

TEXTS:
Giorgio Tinazzi (edited by), Il cinema francese attraverso i film, Carocci, Roma 2011 (pp. 9-113);
André Bazin, Jean Renoir, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, 2012 (ebook edition 2018);
Giacomo Ravesi, L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934). Immagini del desiderio, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, 2016.
A selection of texts, edited by the teacher, available at the beginning of the course at the photocopy shop of via G. Rocco 11. The copy shop carries out shipments throughout Italy. For information: copylp2009@gmail.com or 06.5759751.

For non-attending students: Denis Brotto, Jean Vigo. Opera completa, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, 2018.

FILMOGRAPHY:
Germaine Dulac: La coquille et le clergyman (1928).
Jean Vigo: À propos de Nice (A proposito di Nizza, 1930); Taris, roi de l’eau (Taris, o del nuoto, 1931); Zéro de conduite (Zero in condotta, 1933); L’Atalante (1934).
René Clair: Sous les toits de Paris (Sotto i tetti di Parigi, 1930); Quatorze Juillet (Per le vie di Parigi, 1933).
Jean Renoir: Boudu sauvé des eaux (Boudu salvato dalle acque, 1932); Toni (1935); Une partie de campagne (La scampagnata, 1936); La Règle du jeu (La regola del gioco, 1939).
Julien Duvivier: Pépé le Moko (Il bandito della Casbah, 1936).
Marcel Carné: Le Quai des brumes (Il porto delle nebbie, 1938); Le Jour se lève (Alba tragica, 1939).
Jean Grémillon: Remorques (Tempesta, 1941).

Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139.

Politics of nature
The environmental issue requires a subversion of political thought in the Western canon.
How can we think of a politics that is no longer a characteristic sphere of human subjects alone?
A reconnaissance of the so-called "environmental" or "ecological" problems is necessary to imagine again and again the sphere of interactions between human and non-human.

I. Stengers, Cosmopolitics - selected chapters - Cosmopolitics I; Cosmopolitics VII
Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck, and Christos Lynteris (Eds.), The Anthropology of Epidemics, Routledge 2019

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.The first teaching unit (3 CFU) will be reserved for an overview of the philosophies of habit by Aristotle until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second teaching unit (3 CFU) will focus on the following philosophies of habit, with particular attention to the debate of the late nineteenth century, influenced by the evolutionary paradigm, thanks also to the reading and commentary of passages from the texts of Léon Dumont (1876) and William James (1887) on habit.

Unit 1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019
Unit 2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine, ed. by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, ed, by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 - original English text available online at the URL = https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo30newy/page/n449
5. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/james/

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 ECTS)

Books:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: corsair wars, slavery, religious conversions"

Books:
Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.

Students not attending the course will have to study, for this unit, the following additional book:
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018 (Open Access, free download: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516)

Main topics covered in the course:
Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
The current geopolitical continental situation.
Debate on economic development. Environment and access to resources. The indigenous minorities.

The examination is composed by two part: general part; monographic part.
General Part. One of the following books:
-De Giuseppe M., La Bella G., Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or new edition).

Monographic part. One of the following books:
-Carmagnani, M., Le connessioni mondiali e l’Atlantico 1450-1850, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (L’antologia di testi è parte essenziale del libro).
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vangelista C., Scatti sugli indios. Ricerche di storia visiva, Aracne, Collana “America e Americhe. Storia, relazioni, immagini”, Roma, 2018.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
-Nocera R., Wulzer, P., L'America Latina nella politica internazionale. Dalla fine del sistema bipolare alla crisi dell'ordine liberale, Roma, Carocci, 2020

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.

All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio)

1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
2. J. Chalcraft, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

3. One of the following, except for students enrolled in International Studies, or International Relations (Dept of Political Science), who will choose two:


a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013.

Students may propose books not included in the list, according to their personal interest.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

a. W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
b. Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

Please check bit.ly/dsu-gervasio

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Nicolas Dall’Olio, «Il suolo minacciato (full)» (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-1l1I28cY)

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category, or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and in other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts for the final exam.

Two volumes among the following ones:

Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, Storia delle donne in Occidente, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992: 8 chapters in total present in the two volumes “L’Ottocento” e “Il Novecento”

Tiziana Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Carocci, Roma 2019

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’età della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

Liviana Gazzetta, Orizzonti nuovi. Storia del primo femminismo in Italia (1865-1925), Viella, Roma 2018

Alessandra Pescarolo, Il lavoro delle donne nell’Italia contemporanea, Viella, Roma 2019


and also one essay chosen between the two following ones:

Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol. 1 N. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30;
or Joan W. Scott, “Il genere. Un’utile categoria di analisi storica”, in Altre storie. La critica femminista della storia, a cura di P. Di Cori, Clueb, Bologna 1996, pp. 307-347) or in J.W. Scott, Genere, politica, storia, a cura di Ida Fazio, Viella, Roma 2013

The first part of the course is an introduction to cultural anthropology: basic features of anthropological reasoning, the notions of relativism, culture, ethnic identity, and ethnographic method, the different subjects of anthropological knowledge, and processes of globalization will be introduced in a historical view.
The second part will focus on magic and witchcraft, through the notion of history, power, body and relatedness. In particular lessons will address belief between spirituality and matter, rationalities and systems of belief, the role of historical and colonial aspects.

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

Gli studenti non frequentati dovranno aggiungere:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015, parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero): cap. 1. Sistemi chiusi e aperti, cap. 2. Pensiero metaforico e pensiero magico, cap. 3. Il pensiero mitico (pp. 141-166).

The course deal with the birth of capitalism from the Middle Ages up to the contemporary age. It analyses the three main forms of capitalism: merchant, industrial and financial.

Attending students (all of them):

F. Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora 1977.
J. Kocka, Capitalism: A Short History, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2016.
P. Bowles, Capitalism, Routledge, London / New York 2014

Non-attending students (plus one of the two below):

L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (no the chapters 2, 3, 8 e 10).
L. Gallino, Finanzacapitalismo, Einaudi, Turin 2013.

this course aims to offer a deep knowledge e about the history of some subjects and approaches about religion and in particular about authors, works and approaches on the study of the relationship between religion and space (form the geography of religion to the geography of religions)

We will discuss competences about theories, concepts, terminology and methodologies in the study of religions places and the localization of the sacred in the space, through materiality and relations of planning

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in spaces that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.
The main case study that will be examined is case of multi-faith places in the Mediterranean area, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

For attending students:
1. Notes taken and readings suggested during the course (see uploaded materials)

2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.
M.Giorda M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20.

Non-attending students have to replace point 1 with one of the following books:
S. N. Eisenstadt, Civiltà Ebraica. L'esperienza storica degli Ebrei in una prospettiva comparativa, Donzelli Editore, Roma, 1993.
G. Flood, L'’induismo. Temi, tradizioni, prospettive, Einaudi, Torino, 2006.
J. Jensen, Che cosa è la Religione, Bulzoni, Roma 2017.
G. Filoramo Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

An historical perspective on religions must take into consideration their multi-layered presence on the territory and must be able to analyze dynamics and strategies: since 2007 more than a half of the global population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic and capital resources concerning religions. In cities innovations, waves and tendencies concerning beliefs and religious practices are produced and reproduced.
The pandemia in which we have been deeply immerged, has made visible a concept which is typically linked to history of religions: the fear. The fear, almost touchable in the streets of the cities all over the world, is related to religion in a double way; from one side every religion was born from the fear of the loose/impossibility of controlling life, death, illness, pain, the end and often it is an answer to this feeling and to worries; for these reasons, 2020 lockdown did not affirmed the end of religion but a reformulation and adaptation to the time we are living.
From the other side, religions produce fear, in the case of violence which arises in their name but also due to collective imaginaries which feed clichés, stereotypes, in particular towards minorities.
This course offers some historical examples of religion such as an antidote to fear and religion such as virus of fear, in particular related to the topic of religious fundamentalisms (on line – at school in prisons and in religious places) and simplifications, stereotypes and fears related to religion.
This course is interconnected with “Movimenti e tendenze dell’islam contemporaneo” L-OR/10 of Professor Gennaro Gervasio

Studenti frequentanti:
1. Notes taken and readings suggested during the course (see uploaded materials)
2. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni, Roma 2017.
or M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019.



Non-attending students have to replace point 1 with the following:
G. Filoramo, R. Parrinello, Guarire dal contagio, Morcelliana Brescia 2020 or
M. Graziano, Guerra santa e santa alleanza, religioni e disordine internazionale nel XXI secolo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014.

The course will mainly tackle the following topics: the origins of local diplomatic representation; Italian models; social careers and roles of ambassadors and apostolic nuncios; treaties on the diplomatic profession; critical investigation of diplomatic sources; duties and regulations of the diplomatic profession; the actual practices of diplomacy at work in modern-era historical contexts.

Exam texts
1) S. ANDRETTA, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Biblink, Roma 2006.
2) 2) Esperienza e diplomazia. Saperi, pratiche culturali e azione diplomatica nell’età moderna (XV-XVIII secc.)- Expérience et diplomatie. Savoirs, pratiques culturelles et action diplomatique à l’époque moderne (XV-XVIIIe siècle), a cura di S. Andretta, Lucien Bély, Alexander Koller, Géraud Poumarède (Introduction and 8 essays chosen by the student), Roma, Viella, 2020

Non-attending students must study in addition to the texts indicated above:
G. ALONGE, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Donzelli, Roma 2019
or as an alternative the book:
E. PLEBANI, E.VALERI, P.VOLPINI, Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, ( a cura di), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017

Course Schedule: Tuesday 5pm-7pm Aula 12; Thursday 5pm-7pm Aula 12.
Classes start on Tuesday, March 9 at 5pm



Course Syllabus: (days, topics and readings)


T 9 March - Course Intro: Historical Thinking and Cultural History

- M. C. Lemon, Philosophy of History: A Guide for Students, pp. 290-303 (“The What is History Debate”)
- Alessandro Arcangeli, Cultural History: A Concise Introduction, pp. 1-17 (“In search of a definition”); pp. 30-48 (“Interwoven paths”)


TH 11 March - No Class Today! We will make up for it on 6 May


T 16 March - Popular Culture?

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, pp. 3-22 (The Discovery of the People)

- Aron Gurevich, Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception, pp. 78-103
(Popular Culture in the Mirror of the Penitentials)


TH 18 March – Francis Petrarch and Humanism

- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. XIX-XX; 1-8 (Introduction; Quintilian); pp. 25-34 (Petrarch: Introduction; Letter to Posterity; The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; Letter to the Shade of Cicero)


T 23 March - The Humanist “Revolution” and the Renaissance

- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 66-86 (Coluccio Salutati, Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari; Vespasiano da Bisticci: Life of Poggio Bracciolini; Life of Niccolò Niccoli; Lorenzo Valla, The Glory
of the Latin Language)

- Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination (Ch."Humanism: A Program for Ruling Classes")


TH 25 March - Women of the Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance pp. 111-133 (Marriage, the Family, and Women: Intro; Francesco Barbaro; Leon Battista Alberti)

- Carolyn James, “Politics and Domesticity in the Letters of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490 –1519”, Renaissance Quarterly 65 (2012): 321–52


T 30 March - The “Universal Man” of The Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 97-104 (Florentine Neoplatonism and Mysticism: Intro; Marsilio Ficino); pp. 104-108 (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola)

- Leonardo da Vinci, Selections from the Notebooks, in The Italian Renaissance Reader, ed. by Bondanella and Musa, pp. 185-195



TH 1 April - An Exercise of Critical Thinking: Lorenzo Valla’s Reading of The Donation of Constantine

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 206-210 (Lorenzo Valla:
The Principal Arguments from the Forged Donation of Constantine)

- The Donation of Constantine: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/donatconst.asp


2-7 April: Spring Break


TH 8 April - Political Thought: Niccolò Machiavelli

- Starn, Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince, in Biersack, Aletta, The New Cultural History, pp. 205-232

- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, in Bondanella and Musa (eds.), The Italian Renaissance Reader, pp. 258-264; 273-274; 291-293


T 13 April - Pope Sixtus IV, Conspiracies, and the Making of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

- Joseph H. Lynch and Phillip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church: A Brief History, pp. 318-327 (“Crisis and Calamity”); pp. 329-342 (“The Church in the Fifteenth Century”)

- Marcello Simonetta, The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, selected pp.


TH 15 April – The Age of Geographical Explorations

- Cristopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage, paragraphs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 50-54:
http://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/journal/


T 20 April - Witchcraft: A Renaissance Contradiction?

- Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, Ch. 2 (The Intellectual Foundations)

- Charles Zika, Images of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, in Levack, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America


TH 22 April - Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum and Related Traditions

- Kors and Peters, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700, pp. 176-228 (“The Hammer of Witches”)

- Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, “Strix”, in Witchcraft in Europe, ed. by Alan Charles Kors
and Edward Peters, selected pp.


T 27 April - Carlo Ginzburg’s Benandanti

- Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries, selected pp.


TH 29 April - Civic Rituals and Popular Cultures: The Case of the Carnival

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early-Modern Europe, pp. 178-204 (The World of Carnival)


T 4 May - Paper due today
Protestant and Catholic Reforms

- Lisa Jardine, Erasmus: Man of Letters, selected pp.

- Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility: https://history.hanover.edu/texts/luthad.html

- Paolo Giustiniani and Pietro Querini, Booklet to Pope Leo X on the Reform of the Church, selected pp.


TH 6 May - Science, Theology, and Authority

- The Index of Forbidden Books: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/indexlibrorum.asp

- Giordano Bruno, On the Infinite, the Universe, and the Worlds, selected pp.

- Galileo Galilei's Indictment and Abjuration (1633): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1630galileo.asp



T 11 May – Current Cultural Trends

- James Hankins, How Not to Defend the Humanities:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/not-defend-humanities/

- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, selected pp.


TH 13 May - Course Recap and Final Exam Preparation


Final Exams

 All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.

The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Textbook:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", transl. by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (or. ed. Cambridge 2012)

Further bibliography (exercitations):
- A. Petrucci, C. Romeo, "«Scriptores in urbibus». Alfabetismo e cultura scritta nell’Italia altomedievale", Bologna, il Mulino, 1992
- Clémence Revest, "The Birth of the Humanist Movement at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century", «Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales» 68/3 (2013), pp. 665-696
- "Le culture del Regnum e le radici dell’umanesimo di Ronald G. Witt", ed. Amedeo de Vincentiis, «Storica» 59 (2014), pp. 89-130
- "The Italian Exception: A Debate on Ronald Witt’s «Two Latin Cultures of Medieval Italy»", ed. Giacomo Vignodelli, «Storicamente» 14 (2018)

The origins of the Theatine order

The course will initially investigate principal questions regarding the political, religious, cultural and social structures that resulted in the breakdown of Christian unity, in the first decades of the sixteenth century. This will be followed by a study of the way in which the Roman church reacted to the Reform movement focusing in particular on the proto-inquisitorial activities of the Theatine order, which was founded in 1524 by Gian Pietro Carafa, the defender of Catholic orthodoxy.

Testi di riferimento:

1) E. Bonora, La controriforma, Bari-Roma, Laterza
2) A. Vanni, «Fare diligente inquisitione». Gian Pietro Carafa e le origini dei chierici regolari teatini, Roma, Viella

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell’Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
M. Firpo - F. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
G. Romeo - M. Mancino, Clero criminale. L’onore della Chiesa e i delitti degli ecclesiastici nell’Italia della Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
A. Prosperi, Tribunali della coscienza. Inquisitori, confessori, missionari, Torino, Einaudi

The course focuses on the communication of history built on the critique of sources and on different languages: teaching at school, network communication, documentary, film and television narration.
The document at the center and its contextualized dissemination are the basis of two laboratory paths of "Public History"about modern history and contemporary history: the first one is on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries and the second one is on the massacres in Italy in the sixties and eighties of the twentieth century.
The distinction between history and memory, between primary and secondary sources will be the basic concepts of the course and its practical activity.

Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Torino 2009, pp. 3-169;

Walter Panciera - Andrea Zannini, Didattica della storia. Manuale per la formazione degli insegnanti, Milano 2013.

Two other works (for non-attending students, three) will be chosen by students from the following reference bibliography:

Hilda Girardet, Vedere toccare ascoltare. L’insegnamento della storia attraverso le fonti, Milano 2005;

Giuseppe Zanniello, La didattica tra storia e ricerca, Roma 2016;

Prima lezione di metodo storico, a cura di Sergio Luzzatto, Bari-Roma 2019;

Pietro Corrao - Paolo Viola, Introduzione agli studi di storia, Roma 2020.


The Public History laboratory will have as general reference the following works:

Michele Di Sivo, Bellezza Orsini. La costruzione di una strega, Roma 2016

Aldo Moro, Lettere dalla prigionia, a cura di Miguel Gotor, Torino 2018-2019.

Environmental History
Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last three centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Environmental History
Unit I – 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economia, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
- M. Forti, Malaterra. Come hanno avvelenato l’Italia, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.
One of the following books at the choice:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- P. Bevilacqua, Il cibo e la terra. Agricoltura, ambiente e salute negli scenari del nuovo millennio, Donzelli, Roma 2018.
- P. Acot, Storia del clima. Dal Big Bang alle catastrofi climatiche, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (in particolare la Parte seconda e la Parte terza).
- A. W. Crosby, Lo scambio colombiano. Conseguenze biologiche e culturali del 1492, Einaudi, Torino 1992.
- M. Armiero - S. Barca, Storia dell’ambiente. Una introduzione, Carocci, Roma 2004.
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la Parte prima).
Additional bibliographical references will be provided during lessons.

The Risorgimento seen by foreigners
Inside a general framework of events and debates related to the history of the Risorgimento,, the course intends to deepen the positions that foreigners took towards the events of the Risorgimento, conveyed both by journeys to Italy, and by diplomatic relations, and by the testimonies of the exiles who found hospitality in several European and American countries especially between 1820 and 1860. The aim is to understand also what influence foreigners' attitudes and their active participation had on Italian events.
Ample space will be given to reading and commenting on essays and documents, to start the students with a critical approach to literature and sources.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from website Moodle).
2) MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
3) Il Risorgimento visto dagli altri, a cura di MATILDE DILLON - GIULIO FERRONI, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2013 (Temi e testi, 117), pp. 1-319.

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

The consumption of popular culture and policies aimed at influencing popular culture became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Also Italian political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politically engaged, as militancy started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, as writings, drawings, songs, radio and TV broadcasts and movies. The relationship between propaganda from above and popular cultures from below must not be interpreted in terms of a rigid opposition, but rather of a conflictual relationship capable of influencing each other.

The course aims at providing a general overview of the main trends in the history of italian popular culture from the early to the late 20th century, as well as at introducing students to key arguments in historical scientific research on the topic. In this way, students will develop skills to critically read, think, discuss and write about a set of historiographical arguments and a multiplicity of historical evidence.

In this sense, the course will detect how mass communication, literature and the visual arts determined the attitudes, moods and mentality of Italian society during the twentieth century.

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", “Consensus Building” and "Political Religion”, with special references to the so-said “cultural turn”, which changed many perspectives in Contemporary History.

The second part of the course will deal with the role of Italian media as, at one hand, a pillar of ideological consensus and social stability and, to the other, as antidote to social conformism and State power. The connection between Italian Media, Popular Culture and Political History will be stressed through main periods of Italian history, observing continuity and fractures from Liberal Italy to Fascist regime and from the Cold War to the Second Italian Republic.

Students attending AND not attenting classes will have to refer to the following essays for the final oral exam:

- R. Moro, Mosse, the Cultural Turn, and the Cruces of Modern Historiography, (in George L. Mosse’s Italy, pp. 131-136)

- Holt N. Parker, Toward a Definition of Popular Culture, in “History and Theory”, May 2011, v. 50, pp. 147-170

In the oral exam, Students attending classes have to refer also on lessons contents. Students not attending classes must to refer instead to the following textbook:

- Matthew Hibberd, The Media in Italy: Press, Cinema and Broadcasting from Unification to Digital, New York, 2008.


In the last part of the course and before oral exam Students attending classes will have to present a paper on one of the following “blocks”. Students not attending classes will have to choose one of the “blocks” for their oral exams as well, besides essays and textbook suggested above.

Block 1: Poetry and Journalism in Early XX Century
- Pierluigi Allotti, The Style of a Revolutionary Journalist (in Mussolini 1883-1915. Triumph and Transformation of Revolutionary Socialist, pp. 225-256)
- Enrico Serventi Longhi, The Triumph of the Noble People: Gabriele d’Annunzio and Populism between literature and politics (in “Qualestoria”, XLVIII, N. 2, December 2020 : [24])

Block 2: Totalitarian Radio and Music
- Philip V. Cannistraro, The Radio in Fascist Italy (in “Journal of European Studies, vol. 2, 1972, pp.127-154)
- Marilisa Merolla, Jazz and Fascism: Contradictions and Ambivalences in the Diffusion of Jazz Music under the Italian Fascist Dictatorship (1925-1935) (in Jazz and Totalitarism, pp. 31-44)

Block 3: PostWar Italian Cinema and Glamour
-- Maurizio Zinni, Entertainment, Politics and Colonial Identity in Post-War Italian and British Cinema (1945-1960) (in Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in Italian Media, pp- 67-80)
- Stephen Gundle, Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consuption in Postwar Italy, (in “Journal of Cold War Studies”, vol. 4 n. 3, 2002, pp. 95-118)

Block 4: Women and 70’s
-Andrea Hayek, A Room of One’s Own. Feminist Intersections between Space, Women’s Writing and Radical Bookselling in Milan (1968-1986) (in “Italian Studies”, vol. 73:1, pp. 81-97)
- Ruth Glynn, Press Representation of Italian Women Terrorist (in Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture pp. 39-72)

Block 5: TV fiction and Popular Culture
- Mauro Resmini, ‘Il senso dell'intreccio’: History, Totality, and Collective Agency in Romanzo criminale (in “The Italianist”, vol. 36(2), pp. 243-265)
- Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni, Saints, Cops and Camorristi. Editorial Policies and Production Models of Italian TV Fiction, (in “International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, vo. 1, spring 2015, pp. 65-76)

Block 6: Berlusconi and the Second Republic
- Cinzia Padovani, ‘Berlusconi’s Italy’: the media between structure and agency (in “Modern Italy”, vol. 20:1, pp. 41-57)
- Philip Schlesinger, Berlusconi Phenomenon (in Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy, pp 270-285)

RUSSIA, AN EMPIRE
The course will focus on empire as a peculiar element of continuity in contemporary Russian history despite the radical changes that the country has undergone. The unique characteristics of Russia’s imperial model will be analyzed in its various forms and manifestations, along with the diverse political strategies of Russian governors between 1800 and 1900s, from the Russian Empire through the USSR to the Russian Federation. The national question, the broader geographical dimension, the forms of government, foreign policies and international geopolitical visions will be studied in depth. The different imperial ideologies will also be examined.

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Aristotele, De generatione animalium

R. Descartes, L’Homme



Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

The course (first semester) is a reading, discussion and research seminar. The topic will be announced in class at the beginning of the course.

Gillian Rose, Visual Culture, Photography and the Urban: An Interpretive Framework, in «Space and Culture, India», vol. 2, n. 3, December 2014, pp. 5-13.
Giovanni Fanelli, Della composizione in fotografia, in «Critica d’Arte», 
a. LXX, n. 37-38, gennaio-giugno 2009, pp. 35-60.
Peter Hamilton, The Street and Everyday Life, in T. Bennett / D. Watson (a cura di), Understanding Everyday Life, Open University and Blackwell, Oxford 2002, pp. 91-138.
Antonello Frongia, Il luogo e la scena: la città come testo fotografico, in R. Valtorta (a cura di), Luogo e identità nella fotografia italiana contemporanea, Einaudi, Torino 2013, pp. 109-192.
Lewis Baltz, Limiti della città (ma è già stata usata questa definizione?) [1992], in Id., Scritti, Johan & Levi, Milano 2014, pp. 70-73.

Religions and Gender Relations

The theme of religious influence on gender relations will be addressed starting from the analysis of various sources according to different methodologies and perspectives (historical, historical-religious, historical-artistic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical)

The teaching material will be provided in the course of the workshop

The laboratory is an introduction of ethnography as the specific method of anthropological knowledge. Frontal lessons on the history of this methodology will be followed by ethnographic cases, discussions on thematic issue and laboratory proposals to experiment observation, participation, written reports. The laboratory is aimed at acquiring a method and at the same time at fostering an ethnographical sensibility in understanding the social.

Texts to be discussed in class will be given during the course.

The course examines the following topics:
- the concept of the archive: the archival bond and the relationship between creator and archive;
- archives and other cultural heritage complexes: libraries, museums, collections;
- phases of archive life: current records and semi-current records: characteristics and management tools;
- records appraisal for preservation and disposal;
- elements of the history of the archives;
- elements of archival legislation.

General texts

1) Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2015;

2) Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Gli archivi tra passato e presente, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.


Articles on specific topics

- Giorgio Cencetti, Scritti archivistici (in particolare, Il fondamento teorico della dottrina archivistica; Sull'archivio come "universitas rerum"; Inventario bibliografico e inventario archivistico), Roma 1970, pp. 38-69;
- Claudio Pavone, Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l'archivio rispecchi l'istituto?, in "Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato", 1970, pp. 145-149;
- Arnaldo D'Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell'archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in "Archivio storico italiano", 1990, pp. 3-35;
- Stefano Vitali, Memorie, genealogie, identità, in Il potere degli archivi. Usi del passato e difesa dei diritti nella società contemporanea, a cura di Linda Giuva, Stefano Vitali, Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Milano, Mondadori, 2007, pp. 67-134.

Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

This course is organised on different levels. The basic level will focus on the following topics: the Economic Miracle and the “Great Transformation” (with changes in society and mores) and the long-standing roots of anti-politics and populism, from the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) up to the recent ascent of populist movements like the League and the Five Star Movement.

This part of the course lays the foundation for both Module 1 and 2. Each module will then provide a more in-depth look at some topics.

In Module I, the following topics will be analysed: The Republic, the “Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque” (The Common Man’s Movement), The mass-parties, the large-scale transformations during the sixties and the change in mores, the important changes in women’s conditions, the 1968 protest, the hot autumn of 1969, civil rights movements, the Piazza Fontana bombing and the “Strategy of Tension”, the political-economic crisis, armed struggle and political violence, the Movement of 1977, the “Historic Compromise”, the Case of Aldo Moro, changes in collective ethos, the advent of commercial TV, the emergence of the politics of spectacle, the foundations and development of the eighties. T34he crisis of the so-called “First Republic”, the collapse of the party system with “Tangentopoli”, Berlusconi’s rise to power and “Berlusconism”, the choice to become part of the Eurozone, the reasons why “Berlusconism” was successful and then why it began to decline between Liberalism and Populism, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the emergence of the Five Star Movement and the League.


Within this framework, students may choose to more closely examine one of the following topics: changes in the condition of women and the feminist movement, the strategy of tension and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary right, the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

Module 2 furthers the reflections already developed in Module 1 by picking up where they left off and expanding on them, placing them within the broader context of the events of recent years. Therefore, we will look more closely at the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) and “Berlusconismo”.


BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

Christianity and secularization
Starting from the political and social transformations introduced by the French Revolution, the course intends to analyze the evolution of doctrinal debates and State legislation which during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries profoundly modified the relationship between society and Christian religion, and aims to verify the repercussions that the impact with the modernity and the secularization have had on the internal life of the Christian communities, in their various components.
The analysis will be conducted by reading the sources and comparing different historiographic interpretations of the topics covered.

1) Source dossier provided by the teacher through Moodle.
2) René RÉMOND, La secolarizzazione. Religione e società nell’Europa contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999
3) One book chosen from the following:
- Daniele MENOZZI, La Chiesa cattolica e la secolarizzazione, Torino, Einaudi, 1993
- Giovanni MICCOLI, Il mito della cristianità, a cura di Daniele Menozzi, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2017.

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

The first part of he course focuses on the historical question of African history and the history sources for this continent. Particular reference is made to oral sources and methodology. The course will then move on to the fundamental aspects.
The course aims to provide basic background knowledge of the history of the continent and its modern day problems, this in the light of a historical understanding of different cultures.
Subjects covered:
Aspects of African culture (Clans and ancestry, totemism, theism, social structures)
The impact of colonialism
The Africanisation of the colonialistic western culture

- Bernardo Bernardi, Africa. Tradizione e Modernità, Carocci, 2001
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo, A quando l'Africa? Conversazioni con René Holenstein. EMI, 2005 (French original edition)
- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

This course reviews the general history of the United States and Canada from the Colonization to the present and allows students to reach a basic
understanding of cultural, political, social, and geographical factors that influenced their historical development.

Goals:
As a Specialistic course, it provides a more detailed investigation of the subjects, continuing to build on methodologies, debates, interpretations, interdisciplinary approaches, and historical skills learned in other history courses. Students will further develop their attitude in historical research, analysis, interpretation, and problem solving, working with both primary and secondary sources, and critically evaluating the ideas and arguments of others thinkers in the field.

Readings assigned for lectures and seminars are provided at the beginning of each Unit. Some of them are ebooks or journal articles
available electronically on the Ateneo Library system and accessible online. The required readings are posted by email. All videos or audio
screened are available on-line.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The public has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on the screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.

On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.

The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.
To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.
The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• Z. Snyder, 300 (2007)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• Kenneth Branagh, Henry V (1989)
• Justin Kurzel, Macbeth (2015)


Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.


Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Aristotele, De generatione animalium

R. Descartes, L’Homme



Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

To train students in a global vision of international migration, and in their historical evolution: with particular reference to the birth and characteristics of immigration in Italy, to legislation on the subject, to intercultural education, to the theme of identity, to policies on asylum, relations with Europe and the recent international crises.

Immigrazione. Dossier statistico 2020 (un Capitolo a scelta), Idos, 2020

Come un uomo sulla terra (libro + Dvd)
di Marco Carsetti e Alessandro Triulzi, Infinito Editore 2009

L’Antenna e il baobab – I dannati del villaggio globale (Parte III)

di Massimo Ghirelli, Ed. SEI, 2005

Uno a scelta tra:

Storia dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia. Dal 1945 ai giorni nostri - di Michele Colucci, Carocci editore, 2018

Accogliamoli tutti. Una ragionevole proposta per salvare l'Italia, gli italiani e gli immigrati

di Luigi Manconi e Valentina Brinis, Ed. Il Saggiatore, 2013

The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis (Engl)

di Patrick Kingsley, Ed. Guardian Faber, 2016

Per i non frequentanti:

Quattro testi (3+1 a scelta) + una Tesina di 20 pagine (approfondimento/aggiornamento di uno dei testi)

The course covers the major areas of international law:
- The basic features of the so-called international community, intended as a social construct: their relevance from a legal standpoint;
- International legal personality: States and international organisations as subjects of international law; other subjects of international law;
- Sources and rules of international law: customs and general international law; the law of treaties; codification in international law; ius cogens the hierarchy of rules in international law;
- Relationships and interaction between international law and domestic law; reception and execution of international legal rules within national legal orders;
- Internationally wrongful act and State responsibility; the responsibility of international organisations;
- International dispute settlement; international courts and tribunals; diplomatic means of settlement.
In addition, the lectures introduce students to selected special subject areas such as: state territorial sovereignty and its limits (issues of jurisdiction and immunities); human rights; migration law; self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of peace and security; international criminal law; the law of the sea.

Textbooks:

At the option of the student,
either
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, (Iovane ed.), Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018),
or
Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2019)

In addition, the following monographic essay:

Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019 (in corso di stampa)

The content of the course is an in-depth study of the following topics:
- the structural features of the c.d. "International community" relevant from a legal point of view;
- the international subjectivity of States and other recipients of the rules of international law (in particular, international organizations); changes of sovereignty and "identity" of the State in international law.
- the system of sources: customs and general international law, treaties and the law of the treaties, the sources foreseen by agreement, the relations between written law and unwritten law, the process of codification of international law, the so-called non-binding rules;
- the relationships between international law and domestic legal orders and the adaptation of the Italian legal system to international rules;
- wrongful facts in international law and the international responsibility of States and international organizations;
- international dispute settlement and international jurisdictions.
The essential contents and the evolutionary profiles of some sectors governed by international law will also be addressed, including: territorial sovereignty and its limits; the protection of human rights; immigration and the rights of aliens; respect for the self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of international peace and security; individuals' international crimes and individual criminal responsibility; the international law of the sea.

Students are requested to study one textbook of international law, namely:
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, a cura di Iovane, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018) or
- Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2016)
Additionally students are requested to study:
Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019 (forthcoming)

Students are also encouraged to be familiar with the Charter of the United Nations and the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. An additional text of reference could be the volume 'Codice di diritto internazionale pubblico' edited by Luzzato and Pocar, Giappichelli publisher.

The first part of the course is devoted to the changes taking place within the public and political scene and the most important theoretical contributions. In the second part will be considered the main areas of transformation of political communication in relation to the recent history of Italy. In the third part will analyze the role played by television and social media in the popularization of politics. The recent election campaign of the US Presidential Elections will be analyzed and studied.
The course includes the viewing and analysis of audiovisual materials propaganda such as television programs, documentaries, commercials, posters. A good knowledge of the Italian contemporary history is preparatory to the course content.

Course program
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
A text of your choice between
- Paolo Gribaudo, I partiti digitali, Il Mulino 2020
- Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Roberta Bracciale, La politica pop online, Il Mulino 2019

For students of the Master's Degree in International Relations of Political Science, for which the examination is worth eight credits, the program also includes one of the following texts:
- Paolo Mancini, Il PostPartito, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
- Ilvo Diamanti, Marc Lazar, Popolocrazia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, solo parte seconda pag. 115-285.

The following audiovisual materials supplement the course and their vision is suggested to the students.
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: http://www.lagrandestoria.rai.it/dl/portali/site/puntata/ContentItem-39b8c91a-4ca4-4ad1-8429-00e11b21b042.html
– “I politici e la tv”, Correva l’anno, Rai Tre, http://www.raiplay.it/video/2016/09/Correva-lanno—I-politici-e-la-tv-del-19092016-bae0add3-4fb2-4730-ad11-fffea112e7de.html
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 1 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYA6nWs594
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 2 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__F8kF9ObFA

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 ECTS)

Books:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: corsair wars, slavery, religious conversions"

Books:
Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.

Students not attending the course will have to study, for this unit, the following additional book:
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018 (Open Access, free download: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516)

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Nicolas Dall’Olio, «Il suolo minacciato (full)» (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-1l1I28cY)

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category, or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and in other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts for the final exam.

Two volumes among the following ones:

Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, Storia delle donne in Occidente, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992: 8 chapters in total present in the two volumes “L’Ottocento” e “Il Novecento”

Tiziana Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Carocci, Roma 2019

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’età della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

Liviana Gazzetta, Orizzonti nuovi. Storia del primo femminismo in Italia (1865-1925), Viella, Roma 2018

Alessandra Pescarolo, Il lavoro delle donne nell’Italia contemporanea, Viella, Roma 2019


and also one essay chosen between the two following ones:

Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol. 1 N. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30;
or Joan W. Scott, “Il genere. Un’utile categoria di analisi storica”, in Altre storie. La critica femminista della storia, a cura di P. Di Cori, Clueb, Bologna 1996, pp. 307-347) or in J.W. Scott, Genere, politica, storia, a cura di Ida Fazio, Viella, Roma 2013

The first part of the course is an introduction to cultural anthropology: basic features of anthropological reasoning, the notions of relativism, culture, ethnic identity, and ethnographic method, the different subjects of anthropological knowledge, and processes of globalization will be introduced in a historical view.
The second part will focus on magic and witchcraft, through the notion of history, power, body and relatedness. In particular lessons will address belief between spirituality and matter, rationalities and systems of belief, the role of historical and colonial aspects.

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

Gli studenti non frequentati dovranno aggiungere:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015, parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero): cap. 1. Sistemi chiusi e aperti, cap. 2. Pensiero metaforico e pensiero magico, cap. 3. Il pensiero mitico (pp. 141-166).

We will explore the origins of the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trends towards alternative and renewable energy sources and "peak demand" for oil. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of Fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene".
Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by relevant literature (and possibly archival material), images and documentaries.

This course is taught in English.

For each student:
- Bruce Pobodnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age" (the complete book)

For "non frequentanti" (in addition to Pobodnik):
- Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resources" (the complete book)

For 8 credits (in addition to Pobonik):
- A choice of one text among the reference books

The course deal with the birth of capitalism from the Middle Ages up to the contemporary age. It analyses the three main forms of capitalism: merchant, industrial and financial.

Attending students (all of them):

F. Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora 1977.
J. Kocka, Capitalism: A Short History, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2016.
P. Bowles, Capitalism, Routledge, London / New York 2014

Non-attending students (plus one of the two below):

L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (no the chapters 2, 3, 8 e 10).
L. Gallino, Finanzacapitalismo, Einaudi, Turin 2013.

this course aims to offer a deep knowledge e about the history of some subjects and approaches about religion and in particular about authors, works and approaches on the study of the relationship between religion and space (form the geography of religion to the geography of religions)

We will discuss competences about theories, concepts, terminology and methodologies in the study of religions places and the localization of the sacred in the space, through materiality and relations of planning

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in spaces that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.
The main case study that will be examined is case of multi-faith places in the Mediterranean area, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

For attending students:
1. Notes taken and readings suggested during the course (see uploaded materials)

2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.
M.Giorda M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20.

Non-attending students have to replace point 1 with one of the following books:
S. N. Eisenstadt, Civiltà Ebraica. L'esperienza storica degli Ebrei in una prospettiva comparativa, Donzelli Editore, Roma, 1993.
G. Flood, L'’induismo. Temi, tradizioni, prospettive, Einaudi, Torino, 2006.
J. Jensen, Che cosa è la Religione, Bulzoni, Roma 2017.
G. Filoramo Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

An historical perspective on religions must take into consideration their multi-layered presence on the territory and must be able to analyze dynamics and strategies: since 2007 more than a half of the global population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic and capital resources concerning religions. In cities innovations, waves and tendencies concerning beliefs and religious practices are produced and reproduced.
The pandemia in which we have been deeply immerged, has made visible a concept which is typically linked to history of religions: the fear. The fear, almost touchable in the streets of the cities all over the world, is related to religion in a double way; from one side every religion was born from the fear of the loose/impossibility of controlling life, death, illness, pain, the end and often it is an answer to this feeling and to worries; for these reasons, 2020 lockdown did not affirmed the end of religion but a reformulation and adaptation to the time we are living.
From the other side, religions produce fear, in the case of violence which arises in their name but also due to collective imaginaries which feed clichés, stereotypes, in particular towards minorities.
This course offers some historical examples of religion such as an antidote to fear and religion such as virus of fear, in particular related to the topic of religious fundamentalisms (on line – at school in prisons and in religious places) and simplifications, stereotypes and fears related to religion.
This course is interconnected with “Movimenti e tendenze dell’islam contemporaneo” L-OR/10 of Professor Gennaro Gervasio

Studenti frequentanti:
1. Notes taken and readings suggested during the course (see uploaded materials)
2. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni, Roma 2017.
or M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019.



Non-attending students have to replace point 1 with the following:
G. Filoramo, R. Parrinello, Guarire dal contagio, Morcelliana Brescia 2020 or
M. Graziano, Guerra santa e santa alleanza, religioni e disordine internazionale nel XXI secolo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014.

Main topics covered in the course:
Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
The current geopolitical continental situation.
Debate on economic development. Environment and access to resources. The indigenous minorities.

The examination is composed by two part: general part; monographic part.
General Part. One of the following books:
-De Giuseppe M., La Bella G., Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or new edition).

Monographic part. One of the following books:
-Carmagnani, M., Le connessioni mondiali e l’Atlantico 1450-1850, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (L’antologia di testi è parte essenziale del libro).
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vangelista C., Scatti sugli indios. Ricerche di storia visiva, Aracne, Collana “America e Americhe. Storia, relazioni, immagini”, Roma, 2018.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
-Nocera R., Wulzer, P., L'America Latina nella politica internazionale. Dalla fine del sistema bipolare alla crisi dell'ordine liberale, Roma, Carocci, 2020

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.

All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio)

1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
2. J. Chalcraft, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

3. One of the following, except for students enrolled in International Studies, or International Relations (Dept of Political Science), who will choose two:


a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013.

Students may propose books not included in the list, according to their personal interest.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

a. W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
b. Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

Please check bit.ly/dsu-gervasio

The course will mainly tackle the following topics: the origins of local diplomatic representation; Italian models; social careers and roles of ambassadors and apostolic nuncios; treaties on the diplomatic profession; critical investigation of diplomatic sources; duties and regulations of the diplomatic profession; the actual practices of diplomacy at work in modern-era historical contexts.

Exam texts
1) S. ANDRETTA, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Biblink, Roma 2006.
2) 2) Esperienza e diplomazia. Saperi, pratiche culturali e azione diplomatica nell’età moderna (XV-XVIII secc.)- Expérience et diplomatie. Savoirs, pratiques culturelles et action diplomatique à l’époque moderne (XV-XVIIIe siècle), a cura di S. Andretta, Lucien Bély, Alexander Koller, Géraud Poumarède (Introduction and 8 essays chosen by the student), Roma, Viella, 2020

Non-attending students must study in addition to the texts indicated above:
G. ALONGE, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Donzelli, Roma 2019
or as an alternative the book:
E. PLEBANI, E.VALERI, P.VOLPINI, Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, ( a cura di), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017

Course Schedule: Tuesday 5pm-7pm Aula 12; Thursday 5pm-7pm Aula 12.
Classes start on Tuesday, March 9 at 5pm



Course Syllabus: (days, topics and readings)


T 9 March - Course Intro: Historical Thinking and Cultural History

- M. C. Lemon, Philosophy of History: A Guide for Students, pp. 290-303 (“The What is History Debate”)
- Alessandro Arcangeli, Cultural History: A Concise Introduction, pp. 1-17 (“In search of a definition”); pp. 30-48 (“Interwoven paths”)


TH 11 March - No Class Today! We will make up for it on 6 May


T 16 March - Popular Culture?

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, pp. 3-22 (The Discovery of the People)

- Aron Gurevich, Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception, pp. 78-103
(Popular Culture in the Mirror of the Penitentials)


TH 18 March – Francis Petrarch and Humanism

- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. XIX-XX; 1-8 (Introduction; Quintilian); pp. 25-34 (Petrarch: Introduction; Letter to Posterity; The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; Letter to the Shade of Cicero)


T 23 March - The Humanist “Revolution” and the Renaissance

- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 66-86 (Coluccio Salutati, Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari; Vespasiano da Bisticci: Life of Poggio Bracciolini; Life of Niccolò Niccoli; Lorenzo Valla, The Glory
of the Latin Language)

- Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination (Ch."Humanism: A Program for Ruling Classes")


TH 25 March - Women of the Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance pp. 111-133 (Marriage, the Family, and Women: Intro; Francesco Barbaro; Leon Battista Alberti)

- Carolyn James, “Politics and Domesticity in the Letters of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490 –1519”, Renaissance Quarterly 65 (2012): 321–52


T 30 March - The “Universal Man” of The Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 97-104 (Florentine Neoplatonism and Mysticism: Intro; Marsilio Ficino); pp. 104-108 (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola)

- Leonardo da Vinci, Selections from the Notebooks, in The Italian Renaissance Reader, ed. by Bondanella and Musa, pp. 185-195



TH 1 April - An Exercise of Critical Thinking: Lorenzo Valla’s Reading of The Donation of Constantine

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 206-210 (Lorenzo Valla:
The Principal Arguments from the Forged Donation of Constantine)

- The Donation of Constantine: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/donatconst.asp


2-7 April: Spring Break


TH 8 April - Political Thought: Niccolò Machiavelli

- Starn, Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince, in Biersack, Aletta, The New Cultural History, pp. 205-232

- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, in Bondanella and Musa (eds.), The Italian Renaissance Reader, pp. 258-264; 273-274; 291-293


T 13 April - Pope Sixtus IV, Conspiracies, and the Making of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

- Joseph H. Lynch and Phillip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church: A Brief History, pp. 318-327 (“Crisis and Calamity”); pp. 329-342 (“The Church in the Fifteenth Century”)

- Marcello Simonetta, The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, selected pp.


TH 15 April – The Age of Geographical Explorations

- Cristopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage, paragraphs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 50-54:
http://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/journal/


T 20 April - Witchcraft: A Renaissance Contradiction?

- Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, Ch. 2 (The Intellectual Foundations)

- Charles Zika, Images of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, in Levack, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America


TH 22 April - Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum and Related Traditions

- Kors and Peters, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700, pp. 176-228 (“The Hammer of Witches”)

- Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, “Strix”, in Witchcraft in Europe, ed. by Alan Charles Kors
and Edward Peters, selected pp.


T 27 April - Carlo Ginzburg’s Benandanti

- Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries, selected pp.


TH 29 April - Civic Rituals and Popular Cultures: The Case of the Carnival

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early-Modern Europe, pp. 178-204 (The World of Carnival)


T 4 May - Paper due today
Protestant and Catholic Reforms

- Lisa Jardine, Erasmus: Man of Letters, selected pp.

- Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility: https://history.hanover.edu/texts/luthad.html

- Paolo Giustiniani and Pietro Querini, Booklet to Pope Leo X on the Reform of the Church, selected pp.


TH 6 May - Science, Theology, and Authority

- The Index of Forbidden Books: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/indexlibrorum.asp

- Giordano Bruno, On the Infinite, the Universe, and the Worlds, selected pp.

- Galileo Galilei's Indictment and Abjuration (1633): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1630galileo.asp



T 11 May – Current Cultural Trends

- James Hankins, How Not to Defend the Humanities:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/not-defend-humanities/

- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, selected pp.


TH 13 May - Course Recap and Final Exam Preparation


Final Exams

 All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.

The origins of the Theatine order

The course will initially investigate principal questions regarding the political, religious, cultural and social structures that resulted in the breakdown of Christian unity, in the first decades of the sixteenth century. This will be followed by a study of the way in which the Roman church reacted to the Reform movement focusing in particular on the proto-inquisitorial activities of the Theatine order, which was founded in 1524 by Gian Pietro Carafa, the defender of Catholic orthodoxy.

Testi di riferimento:

1) E. Bonora, La controriforma, Bari-Roma, Laterza
2) A. Vanni, «Fare diligente inquisitione». Gian Pietro Carafa e le origini dei chierici regolari teatini, Roma, Viella

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell’Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
M. Firpo - F. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
G. Romeo - M. Mancino, Clero criminale. L’onore della Chiesa e i delitti degli ecclesiastici nell’Italia della Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
A. Prosperi, Tribunali della coscienza. Inquisitori, confessori, missionari, Torino, Einaudi

The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Textbook:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", transl. by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (or. ed. Cambridge 2012)

Further bibliography (exercitations):
- A. Petrucci, C. Romeo, "«Scriptores in urbibus». Alfabetismo e cultura scritta nell’Italia altomedievale", Bologna, il Mulino, 1992
- Clémence Revest, "The Birth of the Humanist Movement at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century", «Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales» 68/3 (2013), pp. 665-696
- "Le culture del Regnum e le radici dell’umanesimo di Ronald G. Witt", ed. Amedeo de Vincentiis, «Storica» 59 (2014), pp. 89-130
- "The Italian Exception: A Debate on Ronald Witt’s «Two Latin Cultures of Medieval Italy»", ed. Giacomo Vignodelli, «Storicamente» 14 (2018)

The course focuses on the communication of history built on the critique of sources and on different languages: teaching at school, network communication, documentary, film and television narration.
The document at the center and its contextualized dissemination are the basis of two laboratory paths of "Public History"about modern history and contemporary history: the first one is on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries and the second one is on the massacres in Italy in the sixties and eighties of the twentieth century.
The distinction between history and memory, between primary and secondary sources will be the basic concepts of the course and its practical activity.

Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Torino 2009, pp. 3-169;

Walter Panciera - Andrea Zannini, Didattica della storia. Manuale per la formazione degli insegnanti, Milano 2013.

Two other works (for non-attending students, three) will be chosen by students from the following reference bibliography:

Hilda Girardet, Vedere toccare ascoltare. L’insegnamento della storia attraverso le fonti, Milano 2005;

Giuseppe Zanniello, La didattica tra storia e ricerca, Roma 2016;

Prima lezione di metodo storico, a cura di Sergio Luzzatto, Bari-Roma 2019;

Pietro Corrao - Paolo Viola, Introduzione agli studi di storia, Roma 2020.


The Public History laboratory will have as general reference the following works:

Michele Di Sivo, Bellezza Orsini. La costruzione di una strega, Roma 2016

Aldo Moro, Lettere dalla prigionia, a cura di Miguel Gotor, Torino 2018-2019.

Environmental History
Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last three centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Environmental History
Unit I – 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economia, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
- M. Forti, Malaterra. Come hanno avvelenato l’Italia, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.
One of the following books at the choice:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- P. Bevilacqua, Il cibo e la terra. Agricoltura, ambiente e salute negli scenari del nuovo millennio, Donzelli, Roma 2018.
- P. Acot, Storia del clima. Dal Big Bang alle catastrofi climatiche, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (in particolare la Parte seconda e la Parte terza).
- A. W. Crosby, Lo scambio colombiano. Conseguenze biologiche e culturali del 1492, Einaudi, Torino 1992.
- M. Armiero - S. Barca, Storia dell’ambiente. Una introduzione, Carocci, Roma 2004.
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la Parte prima).
Additional bibliographical references will be provided during lessons.

The Risorgimento seen by foreigners
Inside a general framework of events and debates related to the history of the Risorgimento,, the course intends to deepen the positions that foreigners took towards the events of the Risorgimento, conveyed both by journeys to Italy, and by diplomatic relations, and by the testimonies of the exiles who found hospitality in several European and American countries especially between 1820 and 1860. The aim is to understand also what influence foreigners' attitudes and their active participation had on Italian events.
Ample space will be given to reading and commenting on essays and documents, to start the students with a critical approach to literature and sources.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from website Moodle).
2) MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
3) Il Risorgimento visto dagli altri, a cura di MATILDE DILLON - GIULIO FERRONI, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2013 (Temi e testi, 117), pp. 1-319.

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

The consumption of popular culture and policies aimed at influencing popular culture became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Also Italian political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politically engaged, as militancy started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, as writings, drawings, songs, radio and TV broadcasts and movies. The relationship between propaganda from above and popular cultures from below must not be interpreted in terms of a rigid opposition, but rather of a conflictual relationship capable of influencing each other.

The course aims at providing a general overview of the main trends in the history of italian popular culture from the early to the late 20th century, as well as at introducing students to key arguments in historical scientific research on the topic. In this way, students will develop skills to critically read, think, discuss and write about a set of historiographical arguments and a multiplicity of historical evidence.

In this sense, the course will detect how mass communication, literature and the visual arts determined the attitudes, moods and mentality of Italian society during the twentieth century.

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", “Consensus Building” and "Political Religion”, with special references to the so-said “cultural turn”, which changed many perspectives in Contemporary History.

The second part of the course will deal with the role of Italian media as, at one hand, a pillar of ideological consensus and social stability and, to the other, as antidote to social conformism and State power. The connection between Italian Media, Popular Culture and Political History will be stressed through main periods of Italian history, observing continuity and fractures from Liberal Italy to Fascist regime and from the Cold War to the Second Italian Republic.

Students attending AND not attenting classes will have to refer to the following essays for the final oral exam:

- R. Moro, Mosse, the Cultural Turn, and the Cruces of Modern Historiography, (in George L. Mosse’s Italy, pp. 131-136)

- Holt N. Parker, Toward a Definition of Popular Culture, in “History and Theory”, May 2011, v. 50, pp. 147-170

In the oral exam, Students attending classes have to refer also on lessons contents. Students not attending classes must to refer instead to the following textbook:

- Matthew Hibberd, The Media in Italy: Press, Cinema and Broadcasting from Unification to Digital, New York, 2008.


In the last part of the course and before oral exam Students attending classes will have to present a paper on one of the following “blocks”. Students not attending classes will have to choose one of the “blocks” for their oral exams as well, besides essays and textbook suggested above.

Block 1: Poetry and Journalism in Early XX Century
- Pierluigi Allotti, The Style of a Revolutionary Journalist (in Mussolini 1883-1915. Triumph and Transformation of Revolutionary Socialist, pp. 225-256)
- Enrico Serventi Longhi, The Triumph of the Noble People: Gabriele d’Annunzio and Populism between literature and politics (in “Qualestoria”, XLVIII, N. 2, December 2020 : [24])

Block 2: Totalitarian Radio and Music
- Philip V. Cannistraro, The Radio in Fascist Italy (in “Journal of European Studies, vol. 2, 1972, pp.127-154)
- Marilisa Merolla, Jazz and Fascism: Contradictions and Ambivalences in the Diffusion of Jazz Music under the Italian Fascist Dictatorship (1925-1935) (in Jazz and Totalitarism, pp. 31-44)

Block 3: PostWar Italian Cinema and Glamour
-- Maurizio Zinni, Entertainment, Politics and Colonial Identity in Post-War Italian and British Cinema (1945-1960) (in Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in Italian Media, pp- 67-80)
- Stephen Gundle, Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consuption in Postwar Italy, (in “Journal of Cold War Studies”, vol. 4 n. 3, 2002, pp. 95-118)

Block 4: Women and 70’s
-Andrea Hayek, A Room of One’s Own. Feminist Intersections between Space, Women’s Writing and Radical Bookselling in Milan (1968-1986) (in “Italian Studies”, vol. 73:1, pp. 81-97)
- Ruth Glynn, Press Representation of Italian Women Terrorist (in Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture pp. 39-72)

Block 5: TV fiction and Popular Culture
- Mauro Resmini, ‘Il senso dell'intreccio’: History, Totality, and Collective Agency in Romanzo criminale (in “The Italianist”, vol. 36(2), pp. 243-265)
- Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni, Saints, Cops and Camorristi. Editorial Policies and Production Models of Italian TV Fiction, (in “International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, vo. 1, spring 2015, pp. 65-76)

Block 6: Berlusconi and the Second Republic
- Cinzia Padovani, ‘Berlusconi’s Italy’: the media between structure and agency (in “Modern Italy”, vol. 20:1, pp. 41-57)
- Philip Schlesinger, Berlusconi Phenomenon (in Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy, pp 270-285)

RUSSIA, AN EMPIRE
The course will focus on empire as a peculiar element of continuity in contemporary Russian history despite the radical changes that the country has undergone. The unique characteristics of Russia’s imperial model will be analyzed in its various forms and manifestations, along with the diverse political strategies of Russian governors between 1800 and 1900s, from the Russian Empire through the USSR to the Russian Federation. The national question, the broader geographical dimension, the forms of government, foreign policies and international geopolitical visions will be studied in depth. The different imperial ideologies will also be examined.

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.

Testi adottati:

F. Castro (a cura di G.M. Piccinelli), Il modello islamico, Giappichelli, Torino, 2007.

V. M. Donini, D. Scolart, La sharī‘a e il mondo contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma, 2015.

S. Borrillo, Femminismi e Islam in Marocco: attiviste laiche, teologhe, predicatrici, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2017.

Altri testi di approfondimento:

Z. Mir-Hosseini, M. al-Sharmani, J. Rumminger, Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition, Oneworld, 2015.

J.J. De Ruiter, M. Hashas, N. V. Vinding (eds.), Imams in Western Europe. Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges, Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Religions and Gender Relations

The theme of religious influence on gender relations will be addressed starting from the analysis of various sources according to different methodologies and perspectives (historical, historical-religious, historical-artistic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical)

The teaching material will be provided in the course of the workshop

The laboratory is an introduction of ethnography as the specific method of anthropological knowledge. Frontal lessons on the history of this methodology will be followed by ethnographic cases, discussions on thematic issue and laboratory proposals to experiment observation, participation, written reports. The laboratory is aimed at acquiring a method and at the same time at fostering an ethnographical sensibility in understanding the social.

Texts to be discussed in class will be given during the course.

Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

This course is organised on different levels. The basic level will focus on the following topics: the Economic Miracle and the “Great Transformation” (with changes in society and mores) and the long-standing roots of anti-politics and populism, from the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) up to the recent ascent of populist movements like the League and the Five Star Movement.

This part of the course lays the foundation for both Module 1 and 2. Each module will then provide a more in-depth look at some topics.

In Module I, the following topics will be analysed: The Republic, the “Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque” (The Common Man’s Movement), The mass-parties, the large-scale transformations during the sixties and the change in mores, the important changes in women’s conditions, the 1968 protest, the hot autumn of 1969, civil rights movements, the Piazza Fontana bombing and the “Strategy of Tension”, the political-economic crisis, armed struggle and political violence, the Movement of 1977, the “Historic Compromise”, the Case of Aldo Moro, changes in collective ethos, the advent of commercial TV, the emergence of the politics of spectacle, the foundations and development of the eighties. T34he crisis of the so-called “First Republic”, the collapse of the party system with “Tangentopoli”, Berlusconi’s rise to power and “Berlusconism”, the choice to become part of the Eurozone, the reasons why “Berlusconism” was successful and then why it began to decline between Liberalism and Populism, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the emergence of the Five Star Movement and the League.


Within this framework, students may choose to more closely examine one of the following topics: changes in the condition of women and the feminist movement, the strategy of tension and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary right, the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

Module 2 furthers the reflections already developed in Module 1 by picking up where they left off and expanding on them, placing them within the broader context of the events of recent years. Therefore, we will look more closely at the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) and “Berlusconismo”.


BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Aristotele, De generatione animalium

R. Descartes, L’Homme



Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

a. Attending students:
The exam will focus on the topics covered in class, on slides in ppt and supplementary learning material provided during the course.

b. Non-Attending Students:
E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere, Milano, Utet, 2020 (pp.XI-299)

Cultural skills (Knowledge of:) the course provides the conceptual basis for understanding (a) the ecological and genetic principles as applied to biodiversity conservation problems (b) the set of problems related to the interaction between human activities and natural environments
Methodological skills (Knowing how to perform:) ability (in theory and in practice) to (a) correctly carry out red listing procedures (according to the IUCN method) and assessment of the conservation status of flora and fauna at risk of extinction and to (b) monitor at-risk species and know about the main conservation techniques (e.g., legal protection, protected areas, reintroductions, etc.).

SYLLABUS

Threats to plant Biodiversity
- Habitat destruction and fragmentation
- Habitat degradation
- Alien species
- Climate change

Threats assessment – IUCN Red Lists
- Red lists (general information), global, European and Italian red lists
- Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria
- Application of the Guidelines to real cases

In situ conservation
- Legal protection (EU Directive, Natura 2000, Italian national and regional legislation, USA legislation and Australian legislation), Protected areas in the world
- Restoration Ecology conservation translocation (general information, techniques, extreme translocation)
- Monitoring of threatened species (monitoring techniques of species listed in the Directive 92/43/EEC)

Ex situ plant conservation
- Botanical gardens and seed banks

Ex situ cultivation of species extinct in the wild and plant traits measurment (Bromus interruptus and Bromus bromoideus)

For the general topics:
Groom et al., 2012. Principles of Conservation Biology. Third Edition. Sinauer Associates.

For the red listing:
Rossi G., Gentili R., Abeli T., Gargano D., Foggi B., Raimondo F. M., Blasi C., 2008. Flora da conservare. Iniziativa per l’implementazione in Italia delle Categorie e dei Criteri IUCN (2001) per la redazione di nuove Liste Rosse. Informatore Botanico Italiano 40 (1). ISSN-0020-0697.

For conservation translocation:
Rossi G., Amosso C., Orsenigo S., Abeli T., 2013. Linee guida per la traslocazione di specie vegetali spontanee. Quad. Cons. Natura, 28, MATTM – Ist. Sup. Protezione e Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Roma. ISSN 1592-2901.

For species monitoring:
Giacanelli V., Conti F., Bartolucci F., Ercole S., T. Abeli T., Aleffi M., Gargano D., Ravera S. 2016. Le specie vegetali di direttiva in Italia. In: Ercole S., Giacanelli V., Bacchetta G., Fenu G., Genovesi P. (ed.), 2016. Manuali per il monitoraggio di specie e habitat di interesse comunitario (Direttiva 92/43/CEE) in Italia: specie vegetali. ISPRA, Serie Manuali e linee guida, 140/2016.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The public has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on the screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.

On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.

The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.
To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.
The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• Z. Snyder, 300 (2007)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• Kenneth Branagh, Henry V (1989)
• Justin Kurzel, Macbeth (2015)


Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.


Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

Christianity and secularization
Starting from the political and social transformations introduced by the French Revolution, the course intends to analyze the evolution of doctrinal debates and State legislation which during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries profoundly modified the relationship between society and Christian religion, and aims to verify the repercussions that the impact with the modernity and the secularization have had on the internal life of the Christian communities, in their various components.
The analysis will be conducted by reading the sources and comparing different historiographic interpretations of the topics covered.

1) Source dossier provided by the teacher through Moodle.
2) René RÉMOND, La secolarizzazione. Religione e società nell’Europa contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999
3) One book chosen from the following:
- Daniele MENOZZI, La Chiesa cattolica e la secolarizzazione, Torino, Einaudi, 1993
- Giovanni MICCOLI, Il mito della cristianità, a cura di Daniele Menozzi, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2017.

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

The first part of he course focuses on the historical question of African history and the history sources for this continent. Particular reference is made to oral sources and methodology. The course will then move on to the fundamental aspects.
The course aims to provide basic background knowledge of the history of the continent and its modern day problems, this in the light of a historical understanding of different cultures.
Subjects covered:
Aspects of African culture (Clans and ancestry, totemism, theism, social structures)
The impact of colonialism
The Africanisation of the colonialistic western culture

- Bernardo Bernardi, Africa. Tradizione e Modernità, Carocci, 2001
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo, A quando l'Africa? Conversazioni con René Holenstein. EMI, 2005 (French original edition)
- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

This course reviews the general history of the United States and Canada from the Colonization to the present and allows students to reach a basic
understanding of cultural, political, social, and geographical factors that influenced their historical development.

Goals:
As a Specialistic course, it provides a more detailed investigation of the subjects, continuing to build on methodologies, debates, interpretations, interdisciplinary approaches, and historical skills learned in other history courses. Students will further develop their attitude in historical research, analysis, interpretation, and problem solving, working with both primary and secondary sources, and critically evaluating the ideas and arguments of others thinkers in the field.

Readings assigned for lectures and seminars are provided at the beginning of each Unit. Some of them are ebooks or journal articles
available electronically on the Ateneo Library system and accessible online. The required readings are posted by email. All videos or audio
screened are available on-line.

Women and faith in Middle Ages: feminine protagonism or social compulsion?
The lessons want to analyse the link between women’s experience and religious life in Middle Ages. Specifically, they question the objectives, the forms and ways of this participation. Is it a form of social compulsion in which women are submitted to men’s predominance – as in social dimension of family happens – or they are able to find a personal fulfilment thanks to religious dimension, also because they escape familiar contest? Which link is established with men, which are still present in religious and ecclesiastical contest like spiritual counsellors, religious Order’s founders or popes? We will try to ask these questions and others through the study of some of the most representative figures of the medieval period like Clare of Assisi, Frances of Rome, Catherine of Siena, Angela of Foligno and others. The lessons will be seminars in which we will dialogue and discuss different ideas.

1) Learning material - lecture notes and/or pdf depending on the evolution of the plague - will be elaborated during the lessons with attending students on the basis of: A. Bartolomei, Santità e mistica femminile nel medioevo, Spoleto 2013. Non-attending students must study all chapters of A. Bartolomei, Santità e mistica femminile nel medioevo, Spoleto 2013. For a deal with the publisher (CISAM) it is possible to buy the book online with a discount of 50%.

2) G. Vitolo, Medioevo. I caratteri originali di un'età di transizione, Sansoni 2000: only for students who have never taken an exam of medieval history

3) All students must develop a subject of medieval history in an essay that must be arranged with the teacher during the class for the attendees, in the teacher’s office for non-attending students.

The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Textbook:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", transl. by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (or. ed. Cambridge 2012)

Further bibliography (exercitations):
- A. Petrucci, C. Romeo, "«Scriptores in urbibus». Alfabetismo e cultura scritta nell’Italia altomedievale", Bologna, il Mulino, 1992
- Clémence Revest, "The Birth of the Humanist Movement at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century", «Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales» 68/3 (2013), pp. 665-696
- "Le culture del Regnum e le radici dell’umanesimo di Ronald G. Witt", ed. Amedeo de Vincentiis, «Storica» 59 (2014), pp. 89-130
- "The Italian Exception: A Debate on Ronald Witt’s «Two Latin Cultures of Medieval Italy»", ed. Giacomo Vignodelli, «Storicamente» 14 (2018)

Public Estates in Early Medieval Europe.
Aim of this course is to analyse Public Estates in Medieval Europe, from 8th to 11th century. We will compare different Case Studies, from Lombard Kingdom to the North of Iberian peninsula.

V. Loré, Curtis regia e beni dei duchi. Il patrimonio pubblico nel regno longobardo, in Biens publics, biens du roi. Les bases économiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen Âge / Beni pubblici, beni del re. Le basi economiche dei poteri regi nell’alto medioevo, ed. F. Bougard and V. Loré, Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 31-78, and a choice of four others articles in the same volume (almost one necessarily in english, french or spanish); dossier of Medieval Sources or alternatively G. Vignodelli, Berta e Adelaide. La politica di consolidamento del potere regio di Ugo di Arles, "Reti medievali rivista", 13/2 (2012), pp. 247-294 (open access: http://www.rmojs.unina.it/index.php/rm/article/view/4794/5385) and T. Lazzari, La tutela del patrimonio fiscale: pratiche di salvaguardia del pubblico e autorità regia nel regno longobardo del secolo VIII, "Reti Medievali Rivista", 18/1 (2017), pp. 99-121 (open access: http://www.rmojs.unina.it/index.php/rm/article/view/5175/5773).

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 ECTS)

Books:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: corsair wars, slavery, religious conversions"

Books:
Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.

Students not attending the course will have to study, for this unit, the following additional book:
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018 (Open Access, free download: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516)

Main topics covered in the course:
Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
The current geopolitical continental situation.
Debate on economic development. Environment and access to resources. The indigenous minorities.

The examination is composed by two part: general part; monographic part.
General Part. One of the following books:
-De Giuseppe M., La Bella G., Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or new edition).

Monographic part. One of the following books:
-Carmagnani, M., Le connessioni mondiali e l’Atlantico 1450-1850, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (L’antologia di testi è parte essenziale del libro).
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vangelista C., Scatti sugli indios. Ricerche di storia visiva, Aracne, Collana “America e Americhe. Storia, relazioni, immagini”, Roma, 2018.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
-Nocera R., Wulzer, P., L'America Latina nella politica internazionale. Dalla fine del sistema bipolare alla crisi dell'ordine liberale, Roma, Carocci, 2020

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

Please check bit.ly/dsu-gervasio

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.

All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio)

1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
2. J. Chalcraft, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

3. One of the following, except for students enrolled in International Studies, or International Relations (Dept of Political Science), who will choose two:


a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013.

Students may propose books not included in the list, according to their personal interest.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

a. W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
b. Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category, or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and in other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts for the final exam.

Two volumes among the following ones:

Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, Storia delle donne in Occidente, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992: 8 chapters in total present in the two volumes “L’Ottocento” e “Il Novecento”

Tiziana Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Carocci, Roma 2019

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’età della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

Liviana Gazzetta, Orizzonti nuovi. Storia del primo femminismo in Italia (1865-1925), Viella, Roma 2018

Alessandra Pescarolo, Il lavoro delle donne nell’Italia contemporanea, Viella, Roma 2019


and also one essay chosen between the two following ones:

Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol. 1 N. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30;
or Joan W. Scott, “Il genere. Un’utile categoria di analisi storica”, in Altre storie. La critica femminista della storia, a cura di P. Di Cori, Clueb, Bologna 1996, pp. 307-347) or in J.W. Scott, Genere, politica, storia, a cura di Ida Fazio, Viella, Roma 2013

1. Introduction to environmental economics
1.1 The origins of the problem
1.2 Interdependency economy-environment
1.3 GDP growth and welfare measure
1.4 Sustainability
1.5 Pollution extension and types
1.6 Natural resources

2. Ethics and economics
2.1 Natural philosophy
2.2 Libertarian philosophy
2.3 Utilitarianism
2.4 Critique to utilitarianism

3. Social welfare and environmental sustainability
3.1 Pareto efficiency
3.2 Social welfare function
3.3 Kaldor- Hicks-Scitovsky compensation tests
3.4 Market failures
3.5 Second-best theorem

4. Environmental policy
4.1 Public goods
4.2 Externalities
4.3 Environmental pollution models
4.4 Flow and stock of polluting emissions
4.5 Emission efficiency in static models
4.6 Emission efficiency in dynamic models

5 Environmental policy: instruments
5.1 Tax and subsidy
5.2 Command-and-control
5.3 Permits

6 Monetary valuation
6.1 Contingent valuation method
6.2 Hedonic price method
6.3 Cost-Benefit analysis

Title: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. 4th Edition, 2011
Authors: Perman Roger, Ma Yue, Common Micheal, Maddison David, McGilvray James.
Editor: Pearson
Given the actual Covid-19 emergency lecture notes in substitution of the main text are available on Moodle.

Course Learning Objectives and Skill Acquisition
This course consists in two modules. The first deals with basic concepts in Energy Economics as the distribution of sources and consumption patterns at the geographical level, the analysis of demand and supply of different energy sources and the use of energy by sectors. World energy outlook scenarios are deeply investigated. The second part of the course allows students gathering main analytical tools to consider jointly energy issues and climate change impacts. The economic analysis of policy impacts over the long term and burden sharing issues in the international bargaining process are also analyzed. At the end of the course students will be able to understand global energy and climate reports, conduct their own impact analysis and be familiar with main simulation models.

Assessment
The course assessment will be based on two small dissertations that the students will write and present after the end of each part of the course, one on Energy Economics and one on Climate Policy issues, and on a final written exam formed by 5 open questions.

Course general schedule
Part I: Energy Economics
1. World Energy Outlook
2. Energy security and energy poverty
2. Fossil fuels economics
3. Energy price mechanisms
4. Alternative energy sources and clean energy technologies
Part II: Climate Change Policy
5. The science of climate change
6. Climate change impacts
7. Vulnerability and adaptation
8. Mitigation policies
7. The European low-carbon strategy

Detailed Teaching Agenda
Lecture #1: Introduction, practical information, data collection of participants
Part I: Energy Economics
Lecture #2: Introduction to the energy markets, composition of the energy mix
Lecture #3: Demand and supply, peculiarities of the energy markets
Lecture #4: How to read an energy balance: dimensions, sectors, sources
Lecture #5: Global energy markets and scenario building
Lecture #6: Energy price mechanisms: substitution elasticities
Lecture #7: Energy price mechanisms: the rebound effect
Lecture #8: Energy security and energy poverty
Lecture #9: Renewable sources: introduction and taxonomy
Lecture #10: Renewable sources: technological innovation and policy support
Lecture #11: The biofuels case: pros and cons of an eco-innovation
Lecture #12: Energy efficiency and policy support
Lecture #13: The EU Energy strategy: targets and policy instruments
Lecture #14: Dissertation on Energy Economics (Part I of the course, intermediate assessment)
Lecture #15: Dissertation on Energy Economics (Part I of the course, intermediate assessment)
Part II: Climate Change Policy
Lecture #16: The science of climate change
Lecture #17: Climate change impacts and economic damage
Lecture #18: Vulnerability and adaptation concepts
Lecture #19: The international institutional architecture for climate change
Lecture #20: Political bargaining at the international and level
Lecture #21: Mitigation actions and policy instruments
Lecture #22: The Emission Trading System and the EU experience
Lecture #23: The linkages between mitigation and economic performance
Lecture #24: Flexible mechanisms and developing countries
Lecture #25: The EU long-term low-carbon strategy
Lecture #26: Scenario building and policy impact evaluation
Lecture #27: The case of the EU long-term low-carbon strategy
Lecture #28: The case of the Green Climate Fund
Lecture #29: Dissertation on Climate Change Policy (Part II of the course, intermediate assessment)
Lecture #30: Dissertation on Climate Change Policy (Part II of the course, intermediate assessment)

Teaching material will be available to students in a dedicated Dropbox folder.
Textbooks (available in the corresponding folders for Lecture number)
Bhattacharyya S.C. (2011), Energy Economics: Concepts, Issues, Markets and Governance, UK: Springer-Verlag. Chapters: 1, 2, 3 (pp. 41-61), 4 (pp.77-81), 5 (sect. 5.1.1-5.1.5), 6 (excl. 6.5), 7 (Appendix excluded for all chapters).
IEA (International Energy Agency) (2017), World Energy Outlook 2017. Chapters: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.
IEA (International Energy Agency) (2016), Energy Efficiency Indicators. (pages 5-10).
IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 – Synthesis Report. (pages 1-31).
IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Part A. (pages 1-32).
IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 – Mitigation of Climate Change (pages 41-107).
Tol R.S.J. (2014), Climate Economics: Economic Analysis of Climate, Climate Change and Climate Policy, Edward Elgar Publ. Chapters: 1,2,3,4,5,6.

We will explore the origins of the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trends towards alternative and renewable energy sources and "peak demand" for oil. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of Fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene".
Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by relevant literature (and possibly archival material), images and documentaries.

This course is taught in English.

For each student:
- Bruce Pobodnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age" (the complete book)

For "non frequentanti" (in addition to Pobodnik):
- Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resources" (the complete book)

For 8 credits (in addition to Pobonik):
- A choice of one text among the reference books

The course deal with the birth of capitalism from the Middle Ages up to the contemporary age. It analyses the three main forms of capitalism: merchant, industrial and financial.

Attending students (all of them):

F. Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora 1977.
J. Kocka, Capitalism: A Short History, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2016.
P. Bowles, Capitalism, Routledge, London / New York 2014

Non-attending students (plus one of the two below):

L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (no the chapters 2, 3, 8 e 10).
L. Gallino, Finanzacapitalismo, Einaudi, Turin 2013.

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Nicolas Dall’Olio, «Il suolo minacciato (full)» (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-1l1I28cY)

The first part of the course is an introduction to cultural anthropology: basic features of anthropological reasoning, the notions of relativism, culture, ethnic identity, and ethnographic method, the different subjects of anthropological knowledge, and processes of globalization will be introduced in a historical view.
The second part will focus on magic and witchcraft, through the notion of history, power, body and relatedness. In particular lessons will address belief between spirituality and matter, rationalities and systems of belief, the role of historical and colonial aspects.

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

Gli studenti non frequentati dovranno aggiungere:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015, parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero): cap. 1. Sistemi chiusi e aperti, cap. 2. Pensiero metaforico e pensiero magico, cap. 3. Il pensiero mitico (pp. 141-166).

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Not attending
- Numa Broc, La Geografia del Rinascimento. Cosmografi, cartografi, viaggiatori, Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini, 2007 (except capp. IX and XII).
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/file/344CE0FA-C16C-4536-84DF-4F0624F5818D?tenantId=ffb4df68-f464-458c-a546-00fb3af66f6a&fileType=pdf&objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO%2FMateriale%20del%20corso%2FCaraci%20Geotema.pdf&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO&serviceName=teams&threadId=19:f34be9d0c8a841a7981f2d8b39d7105a@thread.tacv2&groupId=a760e24a-ee11-4d7b-be00-294a107557e1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Lo schema (immaginare-)trovare-cercare-scoprire applicato alle rappresentazioni del Giappone (metà XIV-metà XVII secolo), in ANNALISA D’ASCENZO (a cura di), Geostoria. Geostorie, Roma, CISGE, 2015, pp. 65-95 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/856).

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

The course will mainly tackle the following topics: the origins of local diplomatic representation; Italian models; social careers and roles of ambassadors and apostolic nuncios; treaties on the diplomatic profession; critical investigation of diplomatic sources; duties and regulations of the diplomatic profession; the actual practices of diplomacy at work in modern-era historical contexts.

Exam texts
1) S. ANDRETTA, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Biblink, Roma 2006.
2) 2) Esperienza e diplomazia. Saperi, pratiche culturali e azione diplomatica nell’età moderna (XV-XVIII secc.)- Expérience et diplomatie. Savoirs, pratiques culturelles et action diplomatique à l’époque moderne (XV-XVIIIe siècle), a cura di S. Andretta, Lucien Bély, Alexander Koller, Géraud Poumarède (Introduction and 8 essays chosen by the student), Roma, Viella, 2020

Non-attending students must study in addition to the texts indicated above:
G. ALONGE, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Donzelli, Roma 2019
or as an alternative the book:
E. PLEBANI, E.VALERI, P.VOLPINI, Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, ( a cura di), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017

Course Schedule: Tuesday 5pm-7pm Aula 12; Thursday 5pm-7pm Aula 12.
Classes start on Tuesday, March 9 at 5pm



Course Syllabus: (days, topics and readings)


T 9 March - Course Intro: Historical Thinking and Cultural History

- M. C. Lemon, Philosophy of History: A Guide for Students, pp. 290-303 (“The What is History Debate”)
- Alessandro Arcangeli, Cultural History: A Concise Introduction, pp. 1-17 (“In search of a definition”); pp. 30-48 (“Interwoven paths”)


TH 11 March - No Class Today! We will make up for it on 6 May


T 16 March - Popular Culture?

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, pp. 3-22 (The Discovery of the People)

- Aron Gurevich, Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception, pp. 78-103
(Popular Culture in the Mirror of the Penitentials)


TH 18 March – Francis Petrarch and Humanism

- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. XIX-XX; 1-8 (Introduction; Quintilian); pp. 25-34 (Petrarch: Introduction; Letter to Posterity; The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; Letter to the Shade of Cicero)


T 23 March - The Humanist “Revolution” and the Renaissance

- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 66-86 (Coluccio Salutati, Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari; Vespasiano da Bisticci: Life of Poggio Bracciolini; Life of Niccolò Niccoli; Lorenzo Valla, The Glory
of the Latin Language)

- Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination (Ch."Humanism: A Program for Ruling Classes")


TH 25 March - Women of the Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance pp. 111-133 (Marriage, the Family, and Women: Intro; Francesco Barbaro; Leon Battista Alberti)

- Carolyn James, “Politics and Domesticity in the Letters of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490 –1519”, Renaissance Quarterly 65 (2012): 321–52


T 30 March - The “Universal Man” of The Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 97-104 (Florentine Neoplatonism and Mysticism: Intro; Marsilio Ficino); pp. 104-108 (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola)

- Leonardo da Vinci, Selections from the Notebooks, in The Italian Renaissance Reader, ed. by Bondanella and Musa, pp. 185-195



TH 1 April - An Exercise of Critical Thinking: Lorenzo Valla’s Reading of The Donation of Constantine

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 206-210 (Lorenzo Valla:
The Principal Arguments from the Forged Donation of Constantine)

- The Donation of Constantine: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/donatconst.asp


2-7 April: Spring Break


TH 8 April - Political Thought: Niccolò Machiavelli

- Starn, Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince, in Biersack, Aletta, The New Cultural History, pp. 205-232

- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, in Bondanella and Musa (eds.), The Italian Renaissance Reader, pp. 258-264; 273-274; 291-293


T 13 April - Pope Sixtus IV, Conspiracies, and the Making of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

- Joseph H. Lynch and Phillip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church: A Brief History, pp. 318-327 (“Crisis and Calamity”); pp. 329-342 (“The Church in the Fifteenth Century”)

- Marcello Simonetta, The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, selected pp.


TH 15 April – The Age of Geographical Explorations

- Cristopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage, paragraphs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 50-54:
http://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/journal/


T 20 April - Witchcraft: A Renaissance Contradiction?

- Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, Ch. 2 (The Intellectual Foundations)

- Charles Zika, Images of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, in Levack, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America


TH 22 April - Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum and Related Traditions

- Kors and Peters, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700, pp. 176-228 (“The Hammer of Witches”)

- Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, “Strix”, in Witchcraft in Europe, ed. by Alan Charles Kors
and Edward Peters, selected pp.


T 27 April - Carlo Ginzburg’s Benandanti

- Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries, selected pp.


TH 29 April - Civic Rituals and Popular Cultures: The Case of the Carnival

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early-Modern Europe, pp. 178-204 (The World of Carnival)


T 4 May - Paper due today
Protestant and Catholic Reforms

- Lisa Jardine, Erasmus: Man of Letters, selected pp.

- Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility: https://history.hanover.edu/texts/luthad.html

- Paolo Giustiniani and Pietro Querini, Booklet to Pope Leo X on the Reform of the Church, selected pp.


TH 6 May - Science, Theology, and Authority

- The Index of Forbidden Books: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/indexlibrorum.asp

- Giordano Bruno, On the Infinite, the Universe, and the Worlds, selected pp.

- Galileo Galilei's Indictment and Abjuration (1633): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1630galileo.asp



T 11 May – Current Cultural Trends

- James Hankins, How Not to Defend the Humanities:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/not-defend-humanities/

- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, selected pp.


TH 13 May - Course Recap and Final Exam Preparation


Final Exams

 All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.

The consumption of popular culture and policies aimed at influencing popular culture became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Also Italian political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politically engaged, as militancy started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, as writings, drawings, songs, radio and TV broadcasts and movies. The relationship between propaganda from above and popular cultures from below must not be interpreted in terms of a rigid opposition, but rather of a conflictual relationship capable of influencing each other.

The course aims at providing a general overview of the main trends in the history of italian popular culture from the early to the late 20th century, as well as at introducing students to key arguments in historical scientific research on the topic. In this way, students will develop skills to critically read, think, discuss and write about a set of historiographical arguments and a multiplicity of historical evidence.

In this sense, the course will detect how mass communication, literature and the visual arts determined the attitudes, moods and mentality of Italian society during the twentieth century.

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", “Consensus Building” and "Political Religion”, with special references to the so-said “cultural turn”, which changed many perspectives in Contemporary History.

The second part of the course will deal with the role of Italian media as, at one hand, a pillar of ideological consensus and social stability and, to the other, as antidote to social conformism and State power. The connection between Italian Media, Popular Culture and Political History will be stressed through main periods of Italian history, observing continuity and fractures from Liberal Italy to Fascist regime and from the Cold War to the Second Italian Republic.

Students attending AND not attenting classes will have to refer to the following essays for the final oral exam:

- R. Moro, Mosse, the Cultural Turn, and the Cruces of Modern Historiography, (in George L. Mosse’s Italy, pp. 131-136)

- Holt N. Parker, Toward a Definition of Popular Culture, in “History and Theory”, May 2011, v. 50, pp. 147-170

In the oral exam, Students attending classes have to refer also on lessons contents. Students not attending classes must to refer instead to the following textbook:

- Matthew Hibberd, The Media in Italy: Press, Cinema and Broadcasting from Unification to Digital, New York, 2008.


In the last part of the course and before oral exam Students attending classes will have to present a paper on one of the following “blocks”. Students not attending classes will have to choose one of the “blocks” for their oral exams as well, besides essays and textbook suggested above.

Block 1: Poetry and Journalism in Early XX Century
- Pierluigi Allotti, The Style of a Revolutionary Journalist (in Mussolini 1883-1915. Triumph and Transformation of Revolutionary Socialist, pp. 225-256)
- Enrico Serventi Longhi, The Triumph of the Noble People: Gabriele d’Annunzio and Populism between literature and politics (in “Qualestoria”, XLVIII, N. 2, December 2020 : [24])

Block 2: Totalitarian Radio and Music
- Philip V. Cannistraro, The Radio in Fascist Italy (in “Journal of European Studies, vol. 2, 1972, pp.127-154)
- Marilisa Merolla, Jazz and Fascism: Contradictions and Ambivalences in the Diffusion of Jazz Music under the Italian Fascist Dictatorship (1925-1935) (in Jazz and Totalitarism, pp. 31-44)

Block 3: PostWar Italian Cinema and Glamour
-- Maurizio Zinni, Entertainment, Politics and Colonial Identity in Post-War Italian and British Cinema (1945-1960) (in Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in Italian Media, pp- 67-80)
- Stephen Gundle, Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consuption in Postwar Italy, (in “Journal of Cold War Studies”, vol. 4 n. 3, 2002, pp. 95-118)

Block 4: Women and 70’s
-Andrea Hayek, A Room of One’s Own. Feminist Intersections between Space, Women’s Writing and Radical Bookselling in Milan (1968-1986) (in “Italian Studies”, vol. 73:1, pp. 81-97)
- Ruth Glynn, Press Representation of Italian Women Terrorist (in Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture pp. 39-72)

Block 5: TV fiction and Popular Culture
- Mauro Resmini, ‘Il senso dell'intreccio’: History, Totality, and Collective Agency in Romanzo criminale (in “The Italianist”, vol. 36(2), pp. 243-265)
- Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni, Saints, Cops and Camorristi. Editorial Policies and Production Models of Italian TV Fiction, (in “International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, vo. 1, spring 2015, pp. 65-76)

Block 6: Berlusconi and the Second Republic
- Cinzia Padovani, ‘Berlusconi’s Italy’: the media between structure and agency (in “Modern Italy”, vol. 20:1, pp. 41-57)
- Philip Schlesinger, Berlusconi Phenomenon (in Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy, pp 270-285)

RUSSIA, AN EMPIRE
The course will focus on empire as a peculiar element of continuity in contemporary Russian history despite the radical changes that the country has undergone. The unique characteristics of Russia’s imperial model will be analyzed in its various forms and manifestations, along with the diverse political strategies of Russian governors between 1800 and 1900s, from the Russian Empire through the USSR to the Russian Federation. The national question, the broader geographical dimension, the forms of government, foreign policies and international geopolitical visions will be studied in depth. The different imperial ideologies will also be examined.

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.

The origins of the Theatine order

The course will initially investigate principal questions regarding the political, religious, cultural and social structures that resulted in the breakdown of Christian unity, in the first decades of the sixteenth century. This will be followed by a study of the way in which the Roman church reacted to the Reform movement focusing in particular on the proto-inquisitorial activities of the Theatine order, which was founded in 1524 by Gian Pietro Carafa, the defender of Catholic orthodoxy.

Testi di riferimento:

1) E. Bonora, La controriforma, Bari-Roma, Laterza
2) A. Vanni, «Fare diligente inquisitione». Gian Pietro Carafa e le origini dei chierici regolari teatini, Roma, Viella

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell’Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
M. Firpo - F. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
G. Romeo - M. Mancino, Clero criminale. L’onore della Chiesa e i delitti degli ecclesiastici nell’Italia della Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
A. Prosperi, Tribunali della coscienza. Inquisitori, confessori, missionari, Torino, Einaudi

The course focuses on the communication of history built on the critique of sources and on different languages: teaching at school, network communication, documentary, film and television narration.
The document at the center and its contextualized dissemination are the basis of two laboratory paths of "Public History"about modern history and contemporary history: the first one is on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries and the second one is on the massacres in Italy in the sixties and eighties of the twentieth century.
The distinction between history and memory, between primary and secondary sources will be the basic concepts of the course and its practical activity.

Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Torino 2009, pp. 3-169;

Walter Panciera - Andrea Zannini, Didattica della storia. Manuale per la formazione degli insegnanti, Milano 2013.

Two other works (for non-attending students, three) will be chosen by students from the following reference bibliography:

Hilda Girardet, Vedere toccare ascoltare. L’insegnamento della storia attraverso le fonti, Milano 2005;

Giuseppe Zanniello, La didattica tra storia e ricerca, Roma 2016;

Prima lezione di metodo storico, a cura di Sergio Luzzatto, Bari-Roma 2019;

Pietro Corrao - Paolo Viola, Introduzione agli studi di storia, Roma 2020.


The Public History laboratory will have as general reference the following works:

Michele Di Sivo, Bellezza Orsini. La costruzione di una strega, Roma 2016

Aldo Moro, Lettere dalla prigionia, a cura di Miguel Gotor, Torino 2018-2019.

Religions and Gender Relations

The theme of religious influence on gender relations will be addressed starting from the analysis of various sources according to different methodologies and perspectives (historical, historical-religious, historical-artistic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical)

The teaching material will be provided in the course of the workshop

The laboratory is an introduction of ethnography as the specific method of anthropological knowledge. Frontal lessons on the history of this methodology will be followed by ethnographic cases, discussions on thematic issue and laboratory proposals to experiment observation, participation, written reports. The laboratory is aimed at acquiring a method and at the same time at fostering an ethnographical sensibility in understanding the social.

Texts to be discussed in class will be given during the course.

Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

This course is organised on different levels. The basic level will focus on the following topics: the Economic Miracle and the “Great Transformation” (with changes in society and mores) and the long-standing roots of anti-politics and populism, from the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) up to the recent ascent of populist movements like the League and the Five Star Movement.

This part of the course lays the foundation for both Module 1 and 2. Each module will then provide a more in-depth look at some topics.

In Module I, the following topics will be analysed: The Republic, the “Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque” (The Common Man’s Movement), The mass-parties, the large-scale transformations during the sixties and the change in mores, the important changes in women’s conditions, the 1968 protest, the hot autumn of 1969, civil rights movements, the Piazza Fontana bombing and the “Strategy of Tension”, the political-economic crisis, armed struggle and political violence, the Movement of 1977, the “Historic Compromise”, the Case of Aldo Moro, changes in collective ethos, the advent of commercial TV, the emergence of the politics of spectacle, the foundations and development of the eighties. T34he crisis of the so-called “First Republic”, the collapse of the party system with “Tangentopoli”, Berlusconi’s rise to power and “Berlusconism”, the choice to become part of the Eurozone, the reasons why “Berlusconism” was successful and then why it began to decline between Liberalism and Populism, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the emergence of the Five Star Movement and the League.


Within this framework, students may choose to more closely examine one of the following topics: changes in the condition of women and the feminist movement, the strategy of tension and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary right, the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

Module 2 furthers the reflections already developed in Module 1 by picking up where they left off and expanding on them, placing them within the broader context of the events of recent years. Therefore, we will look more closely at the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) and “Berlusconismo”.


BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Aristotele, De generatione animalium

R. Descartes, L’Homme



Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

Codicology
The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of manuscripts, Latin and Greek, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, the external characteristics of the manuscript will be examined (material techniques for preparing the book as a physical object, ways and means of production, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), as well as the cultural landscape of the times and places of origin of the manuscript books. An in-depth study will be devoted to the methods and problems of description of the late medieval codices. This course will include both the examination of reproductions of manuscripts, in paper and electronic format, and the direct examination of manuscripts and writing materials, through visits to archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

a. Attending students:
The exam will focus on the topics covered in class, on slides in ppt and supplementary learning material provided during the course.

b. Non-Attending Students:
E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere, Milano, Utet, 2020 (pp.XI-299)

Cultural skills (Knowledge of:) the course provides the conceptual basis for understanding (a) the ecological and genetic principles as applied to biodiversity conservation problems (b) the set of problems related to the interaction between human activities and natural environments
Methodological skills (Knowing how to perform:) ability (in theory and in practice) to (a) correctly carry out red listing procedures (according to the IUCN method) and assessment of the conservation status of flora and fauna at risk of extinction and to (b) monitor at-risk species and know about the main conservation techniques (e.g., legal protection, protected areas, reintroductions, etc.).

SYLLABUS

Threats to plant Biodiversity
- Habitat destruction and fragmentation
- Habitat degradation
- Alien species
- Climate change

Threats assessment – IUCN Red Lists
- Red lists (general information), global, European and Italian red lists
- Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria
- Application of the Guidelines to real cases

In situ conservation
- Legal protection (EU Directive, Natura 2000, Italian national and regional legislation, USA legislation and Australian legislation), Protected areas in the world
- Restoration Ecology conservation translocation (general information, techniques, extreme translocation)
- Monitoring of threatened species (monitoring techniques of species listed in the Directive 92/43/EEC)

Ex situ plant conservation
- Botanical gardens and seed banks

Ex situ cultivation of species extinct in the wild and plant traits measurment (Bromus interruptus and Bromus bromoideus)

For the general topics:
Groom et al., 2012. Principles of Conservation Biology. Third Edition. Sinauer Associates.

For the red listing:
Rossi G., Gentili R., Abeli T., Gargano D., Foggi B., Raimondo F. M., Blasi C., 2008. Flora da conservare. Iniziativa per l’implementazione in Italia delle Categorie e dei Criteri IUCN (2001) per la redazione di nuove Liste Rosse. Informatore Botanico Italiano 40 (1). ISSN-0020-0697.

For conservation translocation:
Rossi G., Amosso C., Orsenigo S., Abeli T., 2013. Linee guida per la traslocazione di specie vegetali spontanee. Quad. Cons. Natura, 28, MATTM – Ist. Sup. Protezione e Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Roma. ISSN 1592-2901.

For species monitoring:
Giacanelli V., Conti F., Bartolucci F., Ercole S., T. Abeli T., Aleffi M., Gargano D., Ravera S. 2016. Le specie vegetali di direttiva in Italia. In: Ercole S., Giacanelli V., Bacchetta G., Fenu G., Genovesi P. (ed.), 2016. Manuali per il monitoraggio di specie e habitat di interesse comunitario (Direttiva 92/43/CEE) in Italia: specie vegetali. ISPRA, Serie Manuali e linee guida, 140/2016.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The public has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on the screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.

On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.

The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.
To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.
The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• Z. Snyder, 300 (2007)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• Kenneth Branagh, Henry V (1989)
• Justin Kurzel, Macbeth (2015)


Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.


Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

Christianity and secularization
Starting from the political and social transformations introduced by the French Revolution, the course intends to analyze the evolution of doctrinal debates and State legislation which during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries profoundly modified the relationship between society and Christian religion, and aims to verify the repercussions that the impact with the modernity and the secularization have had on the internal life of the Christian communities, in their various components.
The analysis will be conducted by reading the sources and comparing different historiographic interpretations of the topics covered.

1) Source dossier provided by the teacher through Moodle.
2) René RÉMOND, La secolarizzazione. Religione e società nell’Europa contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999
3) One book chosen from the following:
- Daniele MENOZZI, La Chiesa cattolica e la secolarizzazione, Torino, Einaudi, 1993
- Giovanni MICCOLI, Il mito della cristianità, a cura di Daniele Menozzi, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2017.

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

The course covers the major areas of international law:
- The basic features of the so-called international community, intended as a social construct: their relevance from a legal standpoint;
- International legal personality: States and international organisations as subjects of international law; other subjects of international law;
- Sources and rules of international law: customs and general international law; the law of treaties; codification in international law; ius cogens the hierarchy of rules in international law;
- Relationships and interaction between international law and domestic law; reception and execution of international legal rules within national legal orders;
- Internationally wrongful act and State responsibility; the responsibility of international organisations;
- International dispute settlement; international courts and tribunals; diplomatic means of settlement.
In addition, the lectures introduce students to selected special subject areas such as: state territorial sovereignty and its limits (issues of jurisdiction and immunities); human rights; migration law; self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of peace and security; international criminal law; the law of the sea.

Textbooks:

At the option of the student,
either
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, (Iovane ed.), Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018),
or
Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2019)

In addition, the following monographic essay:

Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019 (in corso di stampa)

The content of the course is an in-depth study of the following topics:
- the structural features of the c.d. "International community" relevant from a legal point of view;
- the international subjectivity of States and other recipients of the rules of international law (in particular, international organizations); changes of sovereignty and "identity" of the State in international law.
- the system of sources: customs and general international law, treaties and the law of the treaties, the sources foreseen by agreement, the relations between written law and unwritten law, the process of codification of international law, the so-called non-binding rules;
- the relationships between international law and domestic legal orders and the adaptation of the Italian legal system to international rules;
- wrongful facts in international law and the international responsibility of States and international organizations;
- international dispute settlement and international jurisdictions.
The essential contents and the evolutionary profiles of some sectors governed by international law will also be addressed, including: territorial sovereignty and its limits; the protection of human rights; immigration and the rights of aliens; respect for the self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of international peace and security; individuals' international crimes and individual criminal responsibility; the international law of the sea.

Students are requested to study one textbook of international law, namely:
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, a cura di Iovane, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018) or
- Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2016)
Additionally students are requested to study:
Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019 (forthcoming)

Students are also encouraged to be familiar with the Charter of the United Nations and the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. An additional text of reference could be the volume 'Codice di diritto internazionale pubblico' edited by Luzzato and Pocar, Giappichelli publisher.

To train students in a global vision of international migration, and in their historical evolution: with particular reference to the birth and characteristics of immigration in Italy, to legislation on the subject, to intercultural education, to the theme of identity, to policies on asylum, relations with Europe and the recent international crises.

Immigrazione. Dossier statistico 2020 (un Capitolo a scelta), Idos, 2020

Come un uomo sulla terra (libro + Dvd)
di Marco Carsetti e Alessandro Triulzi, Infinito Editore 2009

L’Antenna e il baobab – I dannati del villaggio globale (Parte III)

di Massimo Ghirelli, Ed. SEI, 2005

Uno a scelta tra:

Storia dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia. Dal 1945 ai giorni nostri - di Michele Colucci, Carocci editore, 2018

Accogliamoli tutti. Una ragionevole proposta per salvare l'Italia, gli italiani e gli immigrati

di Luigi Manconi e Valentina Brinis, Ed. Il Saggiatore, 2013

The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis (Engl)

di Patrick Kingsley, Ed. Guardian Faber, 2016

Per i non frequentanti:

Quattro testi (3+1 a scelta) + una Tesina di 20 pagine (approfondimento/aggiornamento di uno dei testi)

The course is divided in two parts:he first one is a general introduction on the basic concepts of public communication. The included topics are: the Forms and Devices of Public Communication, the Relationship between Power and Communication, the Features of the Public Space as a space of discussion articulated on Global Communication Networks. The first part will mainly include frontal lessons supported by PowerPoint presentations.
The second part of the course explores the relationship between public communication and the media. The media will be approached as spaces of negotiation between civil society and the institutions, in which public knowledge is created and reproduced. In particular, the role of the ecosystem of digital platforms and social media will be addressed. Interested students can take part in laboratory activities focused on case studies on how old and new media platforms contribute to the narration of public and political phenomena.

Below are the exam texts presented in the suggested order of reading:

1) M. Castells (2017), Comunicazione e potere. UBE Paperback, Milano 2017 (nuova edizione). The following chapters:
- Le reti digitali e la cultura dell’autonomia;
- Il potere nella società in rete
- La comunicazione nell'età digitale
- Intervenire sulle reti di comunicazione: politica mediatica, politica dello scandalo e crisi della democrazia (up to paragraph “L’impatto politico della politica dello scandalo” INCLUDED)
- Riprogrammare le reti di comunicazione: movimenti sociali, politica insorgente e nuovo spazio pubblico (up to paragraph “Scaldarsi per il riscaldamento globale: il movimento ecologista e la nuova cultura della natura INCLUDED).

2) José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013), Understanding Social Media Logic, in Media and Communication, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 2–14
3) José van Dijck (2012), Facebook and the engineering of connectivity: A multi-layered approach to social media platforms, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 19(2), pp. 141-155
4) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn De Waal (2019), Il sistema dell’informazione (capitolo terzo) in “Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa”, Edizione Italiana a cura di Giovanni Boccia Artieri e Alberto Marinelli, Guerini, Milano, pp. 103-142.
5) Thomas Poell, José van Dijck (2018), Social Media and new protest movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, 546-561, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick & Thomas Poell, London, Sage.

The first part of he course focuses on the historical question of African history and the history sources for this continent. Particular reference is made to oral sources and methodology. The course will then move on to the fundamental aspects.
The course aims to provide basic background knowledge of the history of the continent and its modern day problems, this in the light of a historical understanding of different cultures.
Subjects covered:
Aspects of African culture (Clans and ancestry, totemism, theism, social structures)
The impact of colonialism
The Africanisation of the colonialistic western culture

- Bernardo Bernardi, Africa. Tradizione e Modernità, Carocci, 2001
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo, A quando l'Africa? Conversazioni con René Holenstein. EMI, 2005 (French original edition)
- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

This course reviews the general history of the United States and Canada from the Colonization to the present and allows students to reach a basic
understanding of cultural, political, social, and geographical factors that influenced their historical development.

Goals:
As a Specialistic course, it provides a more detailed investigation of the subjects, continuing to build on methodologies, debates, interpretations, interdisciplinary approaches, and historical skills learned in other history courses. Students will further develop their attitude in historical research, analysis, interpretation, and problem solving, working with both primary and secondary sources, and critically evaluating the ideas and arguments of others thinkers in the field.

Readings assigned for lectures and seminars are provided at the beginning of each Unit. Some of them are ebooks or journal articles
available electronically on the Ateneo Library system and accessible online. The required readings are posted by email. All videos or audio
screened are available on-line.

Women and faith in Middle Ages: feminine protagonism or social compulsion?
The lessons want to analyse the link between women’s experience and religious life in Middle Ages. Specifically, they question the objectives, the forms and ways of this participation. Is it a form of social compulsion in which women are submitted to men’s predominance – as in social dimension of family happens – or they are able to find a personal fulfilment thanks to religious dimension, also because they escape familiar contest? Which link is established with men, which are still present in religious and ecclesiastical contest like spiritual counsellors, religious Order’s founders or popes? We will try to ask these questions and others through the study of some of the most representative figures of the medieval period like Clare of Assisi, Frances of Rome, Catherine of Siena, Angela of Foligno and others. The lessons will be seminars in which we will dialogue and discuss different ideas.

1) Learning material - lecture notes and/or pdf depending on the evolution of the plague - will be elaborated during the lessons with attending students on the basis of: A. Bartolomei, Santità e mistica femminile nel medioevo, Spoleto 2013. Non-attending students must study all chapters of A. Bartolomei, Santità e mistica femminile nel medioevo, Spoleto 2013. For a deal with the publisher (CISAM) it is possible to buy the book online with a discount of 50%.

2) G. Vitolo, Medioevo. I caratteri originali di un'età di transizione, Sansoni 2000: only for students who have never taken an exam of medieval history

3) All students must develop a subject of medieval history in an essay that must be arranged with the teacher during the class for the attendees, in the teacher’s office for non-attending students.

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 ECTS)

Books:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: corsair wars, slavery, religious conversions"

Books:
Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.

Students not attending the course will have to study, for this unit, the following additional book:
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018 (Open Access, free download: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516)

Public Estates in Early Medieval Europe.
Aim of this course is to analyse Public Estates in Medieval Europe, from 8th to 11th century. We will compare different Case Studies, from Lombard Kingdom to the North of Iberian peninsula.

V. Loré, Curtis regia e beni dei duchi. Il patrimonio pubblico nel regno longobardo, in Biens publics, biens du roi. Les bases économiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen Âge / Beni pubblici, beni del re. Le basi economiche dei poteri regi nell’alto medioevo, ed. F. Bougard and V. Loré, Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 31-78, and a choice of four others articles in the same volume (almost one necessarily in english, french or spanish); dossier of Medieval Sources or alternatively G. Vignodelli, Berta e Adelaide. La politica di consolidamento del potere regio di Ugo di Arles, "Reti medievali rivista", 13/2 (2012), pp. 247-294 (open access: http://www.rmojs.unina.it/index.php/rm/article/view/4794/5385) and T. Lazzari, La tutela del patrimonio fiscale: pratiche di salvaguardia del pubblico e autorità regia nel regno longobardo del secolo VIII, "Reti Medievali Rivista", 18/1 (2017), pp. 99-121 (open access: http://www.rmojs.unina.it/index.php/rm/article/view/5175/5773).

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

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Main topics covered in the course:
Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
The current geopolitical continental situation.
Debate on economic development. Environment and access to resources. The indigenous minorities.

The examination is composed by two part: general part; monographic part.
General Part. One of the following books:
-De Giuseppe M., La Bella G., Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or new edition).

Monographic part. One of the following books:
-Carmagnani, M., Le connessioni mondiali e l’Atlantico 1450-1850, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (L’antologia di testi è parte essenziale del libro).
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vangelista C., Scatti sugli indios. Ricerche di storia visiva, Aracne, Collana “America e Americhe. Storia, relazioni, immagini”, Roma, 2018.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
-Nocera R., Wulzer, P., L'America Latina nella politica internazionale. Dalla fine del sistema bipolare alla crisi dell'ordine liberale, Roma, Carocci, 2020